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362 THE DISPUTED QUESTION.
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witli our strongly conservative prejudices , every novel question has finall its phases y of of reception repulse , , as as true absurd ; and ; of throug partial h these recognition , this must , as itself possible pass about like ;
s the ion rest , matt and . er prejudice Public at all , is op is , inion it a must strong , however be fortress granted , so . far , Women as as yet it concerns against are told the they discus must
take the citadel , or bring it to capitulate by stratagem , or by such shall impercep be tible _siiperseded advance by as their may great succeed grandchildren when the be present . entertained The first generation means Yet
we are do sure not ly say unworth this , as y , if the standing second on too stilts dubious , survey to ing the place from . an unnatural and therefore false positionor in so sayingdesire to
When aim arrows we venture so hig to h over the besiege that as d , , that the daug none hters can of take , Deit effect yas .
part of that humanity pronounce common to both sexes , women , besides being , created for wives and mothersare also created for themselves and
for that Deity , we are sensible , that only by great and long continued effortscan they hope to gain the position of workers in the
world ' s affairs , , instead of the idlers they have been hitherto . Nay , that to attain this , they must be prepared to undergo a species of
martyrdom , which those most in advance of the rest , and hence of their timesshall receive from their own sexeven more
than from the other . , The of womenso often , declared to be an Utopian idea , must change progress places with , . the popular idea of
their everlasting stationariness , or men will assuredly still cheat themselves about themand they in turn cheat men . Women
surely are different from , the lower species , to be now only as they have beenand are to be in all times coming . Our most
remote and humblest , ancestresses , indolent because ignorant , still felteven while taught to regard the suggestion as that of malign
spirits , , that the earth was really possessed by those who worked for its possession , not by them . And this is true , not of bread
alone , but of the highest forces around us , and so to speak , of the _highest powers above us ; if we discover and know them not 5 ( so
far as this is possible , ) they exist not for us . The few advocates for the improvement of women , justly
recommend education the most practical , and work the nearest at hand ; both somewhat beyond the limits to which they are now restricted .
So far well , but unless we desire them to stand still here , or rather at no distant period retrograde , we must also and even in the first
place set before them the highest aim by which humanity can be d to exertion—the full _development of our being in accordance
with urge the design of o _\ _ir Creator , a development , however strange it may appearwomen have not yet reached . A short coming this
from which , , it is no exaggeration to say , mankind has been , deprived of rewardin other wordsincurred a punishment
a , or , , ; greater perhaps than any other . Time and conditions only are
required to shew , that of whatever women are capable , for that they
362 The Disputed Question.
362 THE DISPUTED QUESTION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/2/
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