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SOCIAL SCIENCE. 128
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The National Association For The Promoti...
of the highest want of tlie age , the want of united effort in social advancement ; while the more sanguine saw streams in it a means and driblets whereby of
that want might be supplied . The various mented improvement and volume were to increased flow into b one each channel accession , and to , " swell with force into a aug tide - y
which should sweep away every impediment , and , renovate the face of yet society it . was The not possibilities the work of of such visionaries an institution . Poetry seeined and incalculable practicality ,
seemed for once united . Thoughtful , sagacious statesmen , cautious politicians , hard working men of facts and figures , took part in its
proceedings cluded , men , of and every lent sect their , and names of every to part its support y were if . invited not None to were express in
excould listen their op to inions The the op entire , and inions , nation what of their is was much opponents called more important , and to make controvert an effort so them gratif to if arrive y they g , upon
The at the Association . highest social divided truth itself for into every five departments department . of Jurisprudence social action . ,
or the Amendment of the Law ; Education ; Punishment and Reformation ; Public Health ; and Social Economy . Each of these
was to deal with its great subject , under every possible phase . This out-door parliament would guide the legislation of the country . It
would direct the great educational and reformatory movements , by to drawing together their differences , all parties in conc a common erned in cause them , enable and , teaching them to them
discover merge the best practical means for arriving at , their common end . or affairs It would dispute , and deepen as place the and laws the diffuse m of axims matter the of and s interest anit motion ary science alread , till y as the roused far laws beyond in of sanitary health doubt
shoul each individual d claim an munici equal p observance ality within with its pale these , would ; till as the soon natio think n , and of suffering the sinews of its strength—the limbs of its laborers—to
waste and fester amidst filth and fever , as a mechanician would think of allowing his delicate machinery to be stopped by dirt ; till
all felt that our political greatness , our economical success , every branch of national prosperity and worth , depend on our being a
nation of healthy men and women . Finally , the new Association duties would to enli each ghten other the various At the classes Birming of ham society meeting on their in thi rig s hts last and , or
. , Social Economy department as it is called , the " Woman ' s Question " was dealt with in its moral and social aspects . They who hold the
social necessity—a necessity already proved—for woman taking her part in the industry of the countryand enlarging her sphere of
industrial as woman , effort or affect , by it means only which in the do most , not beneficial affect her manner moral , and character those
who are , as yet , conscientiously opposed to such an enlargement , were enabled to shew with what reason their views could be
supported , entitling them to the convictions of earnest men and women . The able paper of the author of " The Social and Industrial
Posivom ,. n . K 2
Social Science. 128
SOCIAL SCIENCE . 128
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/51/
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