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Four Female Professors Of The University...
from these errors ? On tlie _otlier hand , to whom are they owing ;? "Who precludes woman from obtaining * a complete education ? "Who ?
strews the path towards it -with toils and hardships- ? To whom must the blame be attributed if she fail to reach the goal , or err
on the road thither ? To whom but to man , who has confined her to a corner of the domestic ; hearth ? "In all times and in all
countries / ' says Voltaire , " laws have ever been more or less oppressive for womenbecause they have ever been dictated ,
promulgated , and sanctioned , by men . " It is true that in the continuous development of history , a progressive amelioration is perceptible
in the social and moral condition of woman , but so slow and slender has this progress been , that she still finds herself at an immense
distance from the integral possession of her rights , andy consequentlfrom the fulfilment of the duties inherent to them . Not
y , now , as in former times , can the endurance of her own degradationwithout suffering and without protestbe attributed to the
absence , of this consciousness . In order that , this progress should develop itself with greater rapidityit is necessary that woman
herself assiduous , strong efforts in the to the consciousness facilitation of , of these their rights conquest , should . Into lend this her
channel woman must direct the immense influence which she ever exercises over the soul of man , for it is very improbable that the
stronger shall ,, of his own accord , divide with the weaker even a small portion of privileges which hitherto he has considered
exclusively his own ; and it must be allowed that if man is the chief culprit for having infringed the individuality of woman , she is not
free from blame for the inert indifference with which she has supported her position . The liberation of women cannot and ought
not to be effected by insurrection , but by the indefatigable labor of each and all , by the incalculable results of association . The
lamentations or even the sublime cry of a few will avail little , being lost in the indistinguishable rumours of every-day life .
In Italy the consciousness of the rights and duties of women is far less developed than in . England , and in England less than , in the
United States , but in Italy there is such intense intellectual susceptithat bility once , such let aptitude liberty to rei rise rap in idl the y hel to the paese heig and ht of Italian noble insp women irations will ,
not fail to respond to the gn appeal of regeneration , . Already a solemn p in led literature ge for the in future art is in given poetry in the in p laurels hilosop culled hyin by science Italian , — women culled ,
many of them , , in ages , when , other nations were , yet sunk in barbarism . And while , with lawful pride , France records Mesdames
Dacier , Sevigne , Du Ohastellet , De Stael , Sand , Rosa Bonheur ; and rem Eng ember land , Mrs that . Browning Italhas , Mrs her . Somerville Vittoria Colonna , Miss Martineau Gaspara , how Stampa few ,
y , Tullia d ' Aragona , Veronica Gambara , Sofonisba Anguisciola , Caterina de Vigri , Marietta Tintoretta , Elisabetta Sirani , Barbera
Tebaldi , Bon _^ Brenzoni , Caterina Ferruccx , Accorsa , Bettisia Gozzadini ,
368. Gallery Oe Illustrious Italian Wome...
368 . GALLERY OE ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN _WOMEK _*
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/8/
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