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CAROLINE FRANCES COKNWALLIS. 307
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In Making The Attempt Miss Cornwallis Co...
The life of Miss Cornwallis , viewed in its broadest aspect , as the development of a mind , may be almost regarded as in a typical which
she one , liv so ed clearl . E y ducated does it to mirror aim the only progress at imitative of the orthodoxy age , and with similarl
trained mingling she in took youth her almost reliious exclusivel her poli y ticalher persons social creed as y g
it contented was , presented herself at to first her with by those , believing who as had oth , gone ers believed before , , and and wider wider
because others believed . But with experience came had views been ; circumstances differentl brought nurtured her into contact and intercourse with those with who y
• _everywhere forei everywhere gners esp as very as e to ciall to what y what showed they they oug her oug ht that ht to believe to , while be ; , men th and ey agree differ this led almost almost her matters of
henceforth to estimate theories of Christianity as regulating minor importance her own compared learnt faith more with and heartil Ch more risti to an by acknowled practice the God . - Wh g with iven ile
liht of reasonshe more y ge worketh regard g to ri others hteousness , that " is in accepted every nation of Him he . that " Finding feareth God too th and at
advance was social limited happ of g iness , other and diminished seein nations g that in in these proportion however respects Eng as lan woman th d ere mi ' g s was ht freedom be still in
abundant room even here for farther progress , ; she became _convinced that the advancement of her own sex would be one of human
of ity of . the lier Keep most life , ing poten she this ever t mean steadil asp s ired y of in advancing in view hest all as things ideal one the of interests of to womanhood be the , to main do , objects and She to
_-^ be suffer acquired in accordance deep to learning gain with , not worldly the to hi gratif g end y ambition but because , or that she it loved . might it
for a its means own sakebecause any she felt the , capability with which the Creator had endowed , herand desired to improve to the utmost
the talents with which , He had entrusted her ; and she gave have forth , gained what she truth had ough acquire t to d impart because itand she believed that exertion that all of their who
, , wheth strange abilities er contradiction is th doubl exist y incumbent , are Thus usuall justif y on fettered ing those in her because whose own powers it person is doubted , by the a
claims of ker ey sex to . be equal shar y ers in , the heritage which , God has iven to mankindand ever advocating in her writings the
claim g s of reason to be , the guide of rational beings , she lived to become see what the had been at irit first of but the ttie long the ings anim of atin a few enthusiasts influence of , ageg
the foremost very intellects sp of England , . For what though the masses accustomed may still hug still the shrink chains sullenl to which from their newl limbs -enthroned have y
grown , y
Caroline Frances Coknwallis. 307
CAROLINE FRANCES COKNWALLIS . 307
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/19/
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