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124 SOCIAL SCIENCE.
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The National Association For The Promoti...
tion of Women , " with , that of Mr . Bray , who took the opposite side of the questionis printed in the " Transactions of the
Association , " a _valuable volume , edited by Mr . Hastings , the General Secretary of the Societywhose exertions , it may be mentioned
here , powerfully promoted , the recent amendments which , have been made in the laws relating * to women .
But it is not to this special advocacy that we would direct the attention of the women of England , it is to the fact that the
Association has assumed the right of woman to sit in an assembly deliberating on social affairs—nay , to express her opinion in that
assembly if she chooses . More than one woman took part in the proceedings at Birmingham by contributing papers . One , whose
name is sufficient to ensure respect for all that is dignified and delicate in her sex—Mary Carpenter—sat surrounded by the first
men of England , Brougham , Russell , and Stanley among the numberraised her own voiceand was listened to with equal
interest , and veneration . There , is no fear of English women flinging themselves recklessly into the arena of public speaking , even if public
little opinion trial were to to modesty give way or so timidity far as to as enable is incurred them by to men do so . with There as
is no fear of a woman who has gained a right to be heard on any social questionspeaking out in a public assembly except on the
rare occasions , when womanly tact will advise her of the wisdom and duty of such a course . The confusion of tongues , which has
been humourously depicted as sure to follow the admission of women to the privileges of public speaking , is a picture of the
imagination , like most of the other pictures , drawn by unfriendly or careless handsof those women who are not inclined to
acknowledge infirmity , either , of mind or body , as a necessary or lovely condition of their sex .
The second meeting of the Association promises to lose nothing in interest , with its first year's loss of novelty . Great exertions
have been made by the influential inhabitants of Liverpool to give the members a hearty and hospitable welcome to their town . Lord
John Hussell presides over the whole Association , and opens the meetingwhich is to last through the week , with an address , to be
delivered , in St . George ' s Hall , on the evening of Monday , the 11 th of October . The Lord Chancellor of Ireland will be
chairman of the first department , in which Consolidation of the Law , and especially the amendment and consolidation of the Bankruptcy
Laws , will engage the attention of those interested in law reform . The Hiht Hon . W . F . Cowper will preside over the department
of Education g in which the working of the plan of competition for the Civil Service , , and the _scheme of middle-class examination will
the be subj third ected _dexo to artment keen discussion ; the Earl . of The _Shaftesbury Earl of Carlisle over the presides fourth ove , to r
which Dr . Con oily , Charles Kingsley , Mr . Tom Taylor , Mr . Itawlinsonand other eminent men have promised contributions ; and
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124 Social Science.
124 SOCIAL SCIENCE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/52/
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