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THE ENFBANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN. 291
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Among The Numerous Papers Which Have App...
but that these are exceptions we believe every unbiassed person will allow
. We do not enter here into the alleged differences in physical and mental qualities between the sexesbecause the field of
, but enqu to iry be on assured this subject that there is too is wide no inherent for our difference present purpose so great ;
as to preclude women from the studies and pursuits of men , we need but to recall the nanies of such female rulers as
Jeanne Elizabeth _d'Albret of Englan moth d _, Maria er of Theresa Henri Quatre , Catherine ; of such of Hussia artists , and as
Rosa Bonheur and , Harriet Hosmer ; of such a poet as Mrs . Brown But ing the , of objection such a writer is more on science likely to as be Mrs made . Somerville that politics .
mainl are and unfit other for public these these _£ _> ursuits three occupations are poin unfit ts , and for first women this the objection , incompatibilit than that will women y turn of
active y life upon with maternity , and with ; the , cares of a household ; secondlthe inexpediency of making an addition to the
already y excessive , pressure of competition in every kind of professional or lucrative employment ; and thirdlyits alleged
hardening effect on the character . , The maternity argument can apply only to mothers , and
when we consider that the ranks of single women are becominglarger year by year ; that there are numerous cases of widows ,
who of whose constant ennui marry children and supervision so uselessness late are in _; life old that previous as enoug th to ere have h are to not passed childless their to marriage need ten wives or the fifteen and are mother women we years not ' s
, losing duties By allowing of sight a wife of the no and claims other mother scop of a we e larg for force e a minority woman thousands ' s ? energ to enter ies but the » upon
these at an early age before , the judgment is formed or the rush for feelings the preci time matured itatel in . the into Impelled discovery marriages by of no of an convenience hi object gh affection in life to , , but how taste h many their appy
bitter fruits p when y repentance is too late . , Those who are mothersand who seek to discharge faithfully
the sacred responsibilities , which maternity entails , will never be drawn from these duties by finding the paths to professional
it distinction is late in and the commercial day to have industry to rep laid eat open Sydney to them Smith . ' Surely s often ,
quoted words that ; the u What care , " and he perpetual says , can solicitude be more ab that surd a than mother to
feels suppose for her children depends on her ignorance of Greek and
mathematicsand that she would desert an infant for a quadratic equation ? " , As for the question of competition , if we take the
worst possible result of the introduction of female labour into
The Enfbanchisement Of Women. 291
THE ENFBANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN . 291
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/3/
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