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A WOBB TO THE WISE. 97
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dividuality in . the multitude , "but if each in tlie multitude merged her individuality thus—what then ?
And there are other and great difficulties in the way of those wh . 0 seek to ameliorate human distress . Nor can we take comfort in tlie
delusion thai difficulties " vanish , " even at the approach of the most determined courage . They do not vanish ; they are there , and we
have got to surmount them . Some people speak of obstacles as though they were something like the silvery Alps of Cloudland ,
through which denies deep and wide are ever breaking , or which melt in the calm cerulean expanse while we gaze upon them . Ah !
there is not quite so much poetry in the case . If obstacles made their bow and retired at our approach , why one would rather _haye
obstacles than not , just a pleasant diversion on the way . But difficulties are being overcome . It is well that we should be
advised of them , and learn to understand them ; nor must there be undue deference to prejudices and erroneous habits of thought and
judgment . A wide-spread sympathy is alert , and woman is awaking to her responsibilities . Ladies are threading our alleys , and picking
their steps in regions unused to be trodden by well-shod feet . The sympathies of the age are rivetted on the fallen , and suffering , and
oppressed of the community . The heart of Pity is stirred within her , and Charity is eager to do her prompting .
And Charity is invincible : as well try to counteract natural force , as well seek to frustrate the influence of the Virgin who stands beside
the Lion on tlie zodiacal arch , as to divert the sympathy or call off the attention of philanthropy from the objects of its solicitude . Special
attention is being directed to the " rights" and the wrongs of woman . be Almost done every not _Tb class y a few has women grievances doing to a be gre redressed at deal , but . The by each work doing is to '
, what she can , more or less , as she has opportunity . As the work is done quietly and well , the aid of the other sex will be tendered .
Men are not the _shortsig-hted beings they are sometimes represented by shortsighted womenand which some of them almost merit to be
, considered from their unadvised speeches . We deprecate their disapprobation . It would be a bad omen If men generally condemned
our views , or the mode in which they sure carried out . But we believe the opposition described as encountered from them to be greatly
exaggerated . Two or three jealous critics , a few individuals from whom a woman may have carried off a prize , may now and then vent
their spleen anonymously . We have met with no other form of opposition , and we are proud to have secured the approval of many
of the greatest and best men which our country can boast .
A Wobb To The Wise. 97
A WOBB TO THE WISE . 97
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/25/
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