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    THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN. 293

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    Among The Numerous Papers Which Have App...

    returned date sideration when home , , they thoug as led h to a treated a life resting apar with t place from greater from their p gentleness husbands leasure or , and who business con only - ,

    men were not affected in their intellectual progress by the influence of womenTheir moral nature might sufferbut

    their intellectual character . depended on a different class , of influencesSincehowevermen have ceased to find pleasure

    possess ment and excitement and in . intemperance closer common in , violent with , th women ey bodil , have y . so exercis few This that tastes es sympath the , and which best in y men draws rude they are merri do them be not - - into coming ever more and companionshi more devoted p , to private and domestic

    interestsand as they fall daily more under these influences , they range are in , of danger ideas of and losing of the all cultivation sense of the of that importance public benefactors sp of irit a which wider of

    can alone make them pioneers of progress and their species . they When now we are speak it must of the not deteriorating be supposed that influence we consider of women them , as

    education intellectuall and y , inferior the constant to men emp , but loyment that of the their want facul of ties a prop upon er

    aims petty certain . cares pettiness Men and who pursuits of are character in constant produce incompatible , association except with in rare with high instances women tastes who and , a _' If

    are one their of the inferiors two has , must no knowled suffer from and this no companionshi care about the p . great " ideas and purposes which dignif ge y , life , or about any of its practical concerns save personal interests and personal vanities will ,

    _' her consciousand still more her unconscious influence , , if excep not t entirel in rare y , cases extinguish , reduce , those to a interests secondary which place she in his cannot mind or ,

    does not share . " would But educate there is women now a to larg be e the class companions of moderate of men reformers that is who tp

    say sufficient , would to g enable ive them them a to knowled be interested ge on a in variety the conversation of ; subjects of

    their educated own men sake , whil Knowled e they are not ht to with pursue such such an studies aimmus for t

    be necessaril . We y meet be superficial . on all sides , as ge indeed women soug the who result have has a smattering proved , it of to

    ments science , , they of art are , of taug history ht nothing , of , politics thoroug , but hly . except The consequence

    accomplishof this isthat a man who has such a companion acquires a J between dictatorial them , habit . , In having this cas to e decide there is all merel questions y the which contact arise

    between an active and a passive mind , while the only mental

    The Enfranchisement Of Women. 293

    THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN . 293

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/5/