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distinctly marked that it is indeed modern civilization ; Some _yearsv w ago as , w enerall hen Charles said M jfco ack be ay thie ' s songs dawiL were _pf , someth popular _ing in ? 'i _^ the tiiter streets _'i 0 _^ := _^ _5 _a 3 tt it . _ft-
_^ time lendid g coming in the - y / 7 but earth a ' s _strong history reaction , the _immediate has taken _heralS lace of t _" ow _ffiej ards good an
appreciation | of mediaeval times . Mr .: Ruskin , Mr . Froude p , and a jiost oflesser menhave done battle for the Dark Agesand it is _ndw
genera , lly conceded , that " Venice , Florence , and Holland , , possessecl in W their hether palmy , however days a , very it be res a pectable marked civilization growth _^ or of onl their y amarked and own .
change an immense , it is i evident ncrease that of products our ways , and are a not striking as their uniformity ways _^ in what that
ma we terial produce and , intellectual together with goods a , are constantl thecharac y ext teristics ending of _division _iihe _^ _age _^ of bf
steam . England and France show "them in every department -of i t t comes ir public fairl and into private lay life , is and des the tined treaty to of _increase comm > erce them , when _greatl on y ce
hy speciali stimu ties la , tin so g y tha each t all p coun France , try to _^ unles enormous s it _gtoes production to bed by of _gasli - its _^ g own ht , , ; will adoham _" candlesticksand _^ iie _'
probably pt Birming , our Qens of subj L e yons cts will and more Paris than for the ever year be- , rule r d in their costume at b which y y the - ;? v-- _- _^ nat •' _- _•^ _» ;' : .
_QSTow the point to which I am coming is the price this _^ has great been Eur silentl opean y change levied in has every been m . anuikctu accomplished _^ ng town : the in _jpriee both _^ whichL
kingdoms , the great revolution which has been so little noticed aiaidst from the noise the life politics of the and household the clash and of the war suction * --the withdrawal ' of them by of hundreds women ,
of thousands within the vortex , of industrial life . _- _; _^ ; _! observe Perhaps that you I have will attach onl more graduall importance become to _^ what aware -i that . say - if _^^ _^ 1 .
, y very y tendency pervades all the social economy of our time . _^ Fi gures , the alone cotton do not trade always so impress in 1 the he woolleii imagination the : ; - mind _s ( _f ma loses _^) women its track iii ;
among the out / Jits > , just many as the savage gets , bewildered beyond hi _» seemed own ten to di be gits such . But an inexp in thinking licable anaount of governesses of suffering , and in why that there class
, I have been brought face to face with these wider and deeper questhe tions result , and of have 6 _verJ seen 9 owing that numbers their actual _^ is but destitution part 6 f _^ a general though tendency specially
. on the part of modern civilization to east on women the responsibir lity of being their own breadwinners _,-and to say to them thou with eat _^ a . _,
_iHousand tongues , " Id ? thou wilt not work , neither _^ shalt _^ _ Look at the present constitution of Lancashire life ; ' suppose y _^ 01
American war hinders the supply of cotton to sucn an extent _^ _a _*> before we can reckon on supplies from our Indian _xEnrpire or will i _^ ls © -
thrown wiiere , out the of mill emp hands loy ? are _^ pxo thrown are at least out of a majorit employ y _^ of dko the - tl _?* _^
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/2/
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