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294 THE ENFKANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN.
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Among The Numerous Papers Which Have App...
communion which is improving is that between two active minds . tthis
them be of A things bu nd t and un an niust til until exce stronger continue pt th ional i ncen acc . s well i " t Hi ives t g , h are un men men t g iven tal ever are p y ower o educa w omen in e ted er w , i omen for s op them en state wi t o -
* selves , and for the world ey , —not one sex for , the other . " that It we is also must to look the hope rather for reform of seeing to that in this our change system of it graduall of which parl y iamen it effected is most tary ,
re difficul presen t t to ation touch , or by " any act of leg portion islation . We allude to the tendenwhich exists towards a lowering of the class of
representatives cy for our large cities , and especially for t the f metropolis t .
The ( that best portion men of will it not which truckle posses to ses the th mob e franchise , hereore ) mus he t be imroved before a better class of representatives will offer
them do p more selves than . And all else here . Women female influen of the hi ce , h ri ghtl and y d middle irected , cl could asses whom are brou we ght may into call more the immediate lower-middle contact class g than , and men such with influence t those
i as mmeasurabl they exercise would is even it be now increased often good and in improved its effects by ; their bu own how
greater Women cultivation ' s influence y ! also their own class in the matter is upon
which op of inions great censure importance of an is Eng likel . lishwoman y It to exists be escaped are alread at , y present or for worldl evil upon . y advancem The the political side ent by
that secured sense ; and of . responsibil having no ity political whicli vote the , actual she is p not ossession restrained of suc by h and conscientious minds
is Acting a power but sacrificing by must her g ive a u lower nse to l , all the to reflecting a husband higher duty satisfies when him he neg self lects that the he . of his children in
welfare of his country for the advancement and worldl which y honors are often —honors but which the excuse in no for way his bring own them greed happ of money iness ,
or There for an is unwo a prevalent rthy ambition belief . that to , the thoug intellectu h the present al devel position
of women may be a hindrance opment even of men told _9 their that married moral influence life is the is always great counteractive good . We are of
despotic The selfishness very fact in men of over a . man This his ' s wife view being of and placed the children case in a is positio a must superficial n g of ive almost one him .
power mote a sense selfishness of his own . The importance exceptions eminently are in cases calculated of hig to h pro and - in
being generous made minds the , arbiter with whom of another the fe 's eling destiny of responsibility and happiness-
294 The Enfkanchisement Of Women.
294 THE ENFKANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/6/
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