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WOMEN AND POLITICS. 3
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Why May Not Women Take An Interest In Po...
women But development put _, as they increases look down natural smiling tendencies ly upon it their does littl not e alter feet .
nor destroy them . And a little mind is a , more serious evil than a little foot .
Well , but why choose politics as a means for obtaining this wonderful expansion so much to be desired ?
Because the beautiful and wide-spread charities of wise peculiarl legislation fitted seem for to the render kindl the y nature science of of a woman political . economy It bears
upon the y well-being of our species more directly than any other science . Think for a moment of the sin and misery one unjust
law produces . That law , for instance , which made it legal for one man to hold another in bondage ; the groans , the shrieks ,
the wails that pierced the calm air of our Indian isles have scarcely yet ceased ringing in our ears . A life-time devoted to freeing- individual slaves would but have 1 iberated a few ; a
lifetime spent in altering the law which bound them , enfranchised millions . Think , in cases of distress in our own country , what
could the kindest among us do , day and night dispensing food and raiment , compared with that which has been effected by
the repeal of one sinful law ? I borrow the impressive words of one who knew "what he was saying ; _" Let me tell you when
you make a revolution in opinion on a great question , when you alter your law from bad to good on a great _j > olicyit is
not like giving a beggar a penny and seeing no more of , him , knowing onlthat it provides him with a dinner for the day ;
but it is as y a beneficent Providencesuch as the ancients represented Providence , as a hand projecting , out of a cloud and
-distributing ; not to the rich only , though to them distributing security and a fuller eDJoyment of what they have ; but it
penetrates every lane and every cottage _^ and every chamber , and every cupboardand wherever it goesand wherever it
, , woman enters , it follows blesses out with the a thoug full hts and which liberal these blessing remark . " * s s When uggest a
I think that political measures must assume a wondrous , fascination in her eyes . They should in fact be simply the
carrying out of the precepts of the _ISTew Testament . The sermon on the mount forms the basis for the soundest system
of political economy . And it is beautiful and interesting to trace how exactly in proportion to the accordance of any political
measure with the spirit of that matchless sermon is the extent of outward peace and lenty it confers . We are bound
reverently to remember the p Great Maker of the Universe when the majesties of astronomical discovery solemnize our hearts . We
are taught to think of Him with grateful admiration when the
, * Speech of John Bright , Esq .., M , P _., at Birmingham . October , 1858 .
Women And Politics. 3
WOMEN AND POLITICS . 3
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/3/
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