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292 THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN.
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Among The Numerous Papers Which Have App...
man now those earn and fiel s d woman se s no paratel w j occupied oin y , tl and y would even by men no this t earn alone would much , it be but more be a passing than only a that state man a
aris of things e from —a the transition woman . ' s Even acquiring in this a pecuniary case great benefits independence t would .
and She would what is t once of s till trea naore ted importance with more , consid would acquire ion by men that ,
the wan self- , ting respec proportional " . t Ultimatel , in which decrease y , , the its of increase hig unproductive her forms of produc , she tend consumers tive is to now labour the so , welfar , often mus and t
augment the wealth of the country , and thus e of T individuals hirdlas . to the hardening effect of these proposed changes
y , upon in the a ruder nature state of of women society . The where objection supremacy would could be valid he m were
ainwe , . have tained to onl fi y ht by p t h ysical circums force tances . But onl in y ; the and present in this age warfare , men ,
g women dependent already bear him their for s part . t Everyman man who who has possesses any woman any
woman cumstances ' s love upon against or sympath which uppor y , he and is , who every making is _ojDpressed war influences , must b know y with the him tliafc
cir-We she is all exposed suffer now to — their men hardening and women or — oth more er from what is said . t leteclusion
than from what is doneand nothing bucompe s from But society the real can poin shield t to' any be , jud of us from is , whe this ther evil it . wise or just , to state of forced
to subordin doom ation one half to the of oth the er hum half an . species The only reason a to be given for the continuance of this state of things is that men like it ;
and they have succeeded in educating women into the belief t are hat to be y regarded those qualities as virtues which . are useful or convenient to men fthe
dependence thers Civiliz which ation did has wom not miti an exis gated up t in some man a ruder , of bu the t state it evil has of s arising society brough . t wi It th has it
o enforced the the ruler claims . As when of the the weak divin upon erih the t of strong kings was , of t still he g acknow overned - g
led upon ged , mo but narchs the opi were nion no of man longer kind actuate condemned d by m the ei _; e selfish passio n and of
p s caprice till ower keeps , in their women conduct in subjection towards , their men , subjects whose ; minds so , wh are ile cus refined tom to treat them
with by intellectual kindness and cultivation with that , own deference the obli which gation the strong owe to
the weak . Civilization , however the condition , has also , of while altering produced , and
women a to most some performed serious extent am evil manual eliorating by th labour is very for ch their ange . lords At women , and a time , at a when later
292 The Enfranchisement Of Women.
292 THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/4/
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