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864 THE DISPUTED QUESTION.
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, "With An Increasing 1 Majority Of Abov...
how conies it that when the hollow compliment of women being tlie soul of society is understood at its real valuethe knowledge is
forced therewhile upon us as that individuals the sex as influencing a whole are 1 individuals in truth , without each maintains influence
her influence , only by manoeuvring ? A system , surely unworthy alike of actor and acted on .
To obtain a firmer footing on the earth ' s broad , surface , to acquire some weiht in affairsto be taken into some real account
as the half of humanity g , women , must work , and so work as they have not done yet . The tricks of attraction—nay , the sobrieties of
domestic sympathies , have been tried for centuries , and when has woman ' s condition been best ? Not when she was lovedbut when she
was esteemed ; not when she was idle and indulged , but , when she was useful ; when physical beauty itself was sideways acknowledged
classes to be enhanced are at b this y mental moment beauty seeming . The ly women , along of with our the wealth men y middle of the
community , proceeding from a state of cat-like comfort to one of luxury surel . evils Idleness in the , ignorance women of _^ extravagance the well-to-do , thoug middle htlessness classes , are as in as
either y of the extremes above and below them . Nay , may be classes greater we evils are there to look , if , as as is the so commonl bulwarks y asserted of the country , it is to . the Aga middle in , if
we have dangerous men in the humblest ranks , we have adventuresses of late years in all ranks . And while there abounds much
handiwork improvidence these e , ct among s , thoug some the h intemperance their working numbers classes , and and , they great their do i poverty gnorance not stand make , even alone their in of
from short-corn the resp women ings , the of more the more prominent comfortable . It is classes much to exacting be feared in that the
practice theory insolent them of servants their selves dependents , and arises inefficient much what of workwomen the they bad never return enter in g general iven upon in , unfit so even much and in
the talk of the day . While each class has its peculiar faults , ,, broug one _uiifortunat sex ht up as el to y both , entertain ( from sexes the , and are low forgetting of op one inion humani 1 , of most each mole ty ) other it -like is all , the that women case all are that are of
'Women are especially to blame for the faults , of women ; nor will : this be remedied solely by reformatories , model kitchens , nurseries ,
. or Examp Sunday le schools being . so infinitely better than precept , were each
thi shewing ment woman s and by , however to setting the continue right herself exalted to it others the to her aim ri sp , g nor hts here of , women they , she to beg could following must in the not he march her hi hel g . her p of But afterwards ; improve the to aim do
of those who have to , work for breadas well as those who have that that bread duty is already to fulfil . tho The will first of duty God of , by women , develop is ing to themselves their nature , and to
its highest , and thus progressing in the scale of spiritual intelli-
864 The Disputed Question.
864 THE DISPUTED QUESTION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/4/
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