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THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUART MILL. 7
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ever . raise the market price of needlewomen ' s work . At the same timeit is the bounden duty of every mistress of a family not to beat
down , those she comes in contact with below the point where their labor We gains have a thus wholesome _ttvo truths maintenance to consider . ;—the truth which holds good
in other regard truth to that the action individuals of masses must of and peop do le act on on one Christian another princi , and p the les
towards those , with whom they come in separate contact . In the market natures we cannot must possibl buy and take sell in at the market moral price condition , because and our physical finite
necessitiesof those who y have produced the goods we want to acquire ; but in the , domestic relation of loyers and employeda certain
margin is cut off from the rule emp of political economy , and , embraced within that of reliion . For instancethe market value of my daily
mother governess to support may be g £ 50 choose a year to ; but deny , I myself who know two that silk gowns she has and her
may , give to her the £ 60 shopman per annum who sells instead me . my But dresses I cannot , and offer act in to the pay same him
way a shilling Political a yard more is than the he rule asks of true ! self-interestit is in itself ;
neither moral economy nor immoral ; it represents the laws by which we are ward swayed world in dealing of strangers for ourselves , of whom and we for know our nothing familie . s with The more the out our
circle of interest and affection enlarges , the farther recedes that boundary without beyond self deni which al . we The treat mother other denies hum herself an beings for her scientificall children y , ; any
the good mistress for her servants ; the good master eases within them good certain clergyman much possible of the limits considers profit the which burdens his whole he of acquire parish his work s as throug peop his le famil h , their and y ; _sjoends labor and so ; upon the the
Economy leavened principle b of and y getting a far Christianity nobler every princi thing mig p ht as le cheap ; work and as together in possible an ideal in may nation the graduall relation Political y be of
master and slave . that It will the be more seen , on letel attentivel societ y considering is infused the with foregoing those ideas statements which , y y
modify the action comp of purely scientific laws , the easier it will be for women to work without being crushed by its machinery . We will now human
which creatures draw attention cast be behind to termed a parallel them the observation the political savage theory ; economy namel that y , that of mi wild g the ht make more beasts s rig the ht ,
may , more Looking possible to become the second the independent volume of the labours Political of the Economy gentler , we sex find .
the distribution following ; showing passage that on the societ progress y is graduall of society y becoming , on production more and and
The Opinions Of John Stuart Mill. 7
THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUART _MILL . 7
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/7/
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