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426 OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editors of the English Woman* s J...
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
grud and g I ing am service glad to ; they be able are always to record read thi y s if favorable anything result extra has of the to be trusting done ,
system . We cannot expect servants to remain stationary while other people adguided vance , but bincrease it rests of greatl conscience y with . us And to see I hope that all their increase mistresses of liberty who are is
beginning y their households will take courage , and allow young a little more liberty , at of the the same same . time that they do _^ their best I remain to promote , Ladies a rational , yours faithfull and right y , use
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426 Open Council.
426 OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Editors Of The English Woman* S J...
To the Editors of the English Woman * s Journal ,
Ladies , I hope you will let an old friend put in a few words of guarding to your very curious and interesting papers on " Method in Madness" which appeared
, in and the some _English of them Woman inexperienced ' s Journal and for excitable June and readers July , for . the sake of its varied , I believe that injury is done to the mental saneness of our social life
ness by the , throug kind h the of attention circulation drawn of medical to possible researches or prob , calculated able mental only unsound to be of - data use to concerning scientific investi life obtained gators , b and y experiments even to them on living of doubtful subjects use . , Assuredl like those
y all physical suffering affects the brain—even the slightest derangement of circulation or digestion ; sometimes with the effect of exalting one or another intellectual or moral facultysometimes of depressing or distressing . We
have all seen this , marvelling , in that hopefulness which often gives a charm to consumption , a disease really singularly interchangeable with nervous depression and even with insanity .
state Necessaril of the y bod indeed y has , because actually we to do are with comp every ounded power of fiesh and quality and sp , irit passion , the ¦ and scale feeling . And of for man the , and most every part motion sounder of the health spirit of reall either y influences will redress the bodil the y
balance in the other . But whether in a given case it might or not , nothing tampering can be more as utterl it were y mischievous , to detect in to sli ment ght al and soundness unapparent than cases that fingering the diseased and
p metal art , of which which is the calculated French to Medical increase School if it boasts do not ; create that ring the ing and fear trying the ht with such dire success . The consultation with the " mad" very doctor soug a first
step in itself trying to any nerves , and the asylum _afterwards , howev , er dispatient guised , and onl perhap farther s not evidence the less of for distrust being disguised tend inevitabl , since the to break disguise down is to that the
self-respect y and that natural reliance , on friendly and y equal sympathy , indispensable supporters of self-control and mental labor . Doubtless the removal from the chapter of blame into that of misfortune of much infirmity of
temper and habits consequent upon search into latent mental unsoundness , has its value so far as it leads to the conception of fair play to peculiar idiosyncrasiesjust as we allow one with a lame foot to haltor a weak back to
recline , ; but this is the very reverse of the suspecting , , watching , and experimentalizing shown up to our admiration . It behoves women especiallto resist this doctrine of detection and research
but not because only because much ori their ginality more y in excitable a woman , especialty nerves makes a young it one more , is excessivel dangerous y , , inconvenient and therefore apt to be held as proof of mental aberration by
the family , by _on-lookers , by all unless perhaps some gentle friend , which
pen would dence pas , s the quite privilege unnoticed of genius in the , natural hardier exp man losiveness as whim amidst , habit the , oddity excitement , inde-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/66/
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