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WOMEN AND POLITICS. 5
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Why May Not Women Take An Interest In Po...
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such apprehensions ger should be relieved ; by adding misery to , those who have so much already . It only requires attention and an
impartial mind to see this matter clearly , with all its wide impor But tant the bearings science o . f political economy is not one merely illustra of dry
t ions tudy , of and and its luminousl s professors tatistics . y log Brilliant It ical demands deduc satire of tions , us no lig more ht sparkling up industry the pages than o - f
xaany . astronomy other of or those geology kindre , or d language sciences s which , or mu liave sic , or bestowed mechanics liberal , or
b any lessings of physical ease and intellectual luxury upon the world But ; how and much its results gentlemen are at least woul not d dislike less important ladies if . they took
an In interest _matters in of politics taste , ! to try to please others , is a consideration cal
— an _* in matters telligent of acquain duty , never tance . with Whether political or no j , however ts would , a make m it
would a woman make more a man interesting much more to a man interesting , one tiling to a is woman quite . clear There ,
new and are f when ew men talking it would do of them n be ot t leasa ake to each s nter ome other to int a eres , woman or t in wh public en to reading feel a tt com ers the - ,
munity spapers of in , terest rather p than an utter blank- —she would be happier herself , too , sitting at her sewing " , thinking t of whom some
two she personall or three of y knew that , sad whose 3 , 000 fair , 000 faces of and untaug forlorn hchild condition ren , had rivetted her lovewhose destiny of inorance her own small
knew means that were there all top , were small public to alter schemes —she g * would ' in ag be itation happ , ier which if she if
Knowled ° Such as . those projected by the Society for the Repeal of Taxes upon ge
Women And Politics. 5
WOMEN AND POLITICS . 5
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/5/
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