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133 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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and benevolent reforms , have been reprinted again and again among This us preface . being specially written for those who live in a very
different society , to our own , must be interesting to English women as marking the points of diversity and of likeness between our
American sisters and ourselves . It is well worth our 'while to know what a New England lady , whose high social position and remarkable
mental culture , joined to her age and experience , give her ample means of juding the question , has to say to the eiforts now being
made on each g side of the Atlantic to better the educational and industrial position of her own sex . Miss Sedgwick has never belonged to
any party ; taking in her own country much the same position as Maria Edgeworth or Joanna Baillie in our own , she is removed by
every sympathy of her life from what may be considered unfeminine extremes Itbeing of unlikel opinion y . that any other copy of the American edition
. will find its way across the Atlantic , and deeming the preface a cu-• _rious item in the history of the general question , we print it entire
for the benefit of our own readers . " Religions works and moral essays written for the English public require
some modification to meet the wants of the American people . liave " We different are at a modes different of education stage in civilisation different — modes in a of different life , and position far different . We
oustom prospects s . b We inexorable are not prejudices consolidated ; , in by short stable , we laws are , still by nsage plastic , by and hereditary fusible ; y
ing ¦ while . , Therefore for than , any the great -we have lish change an easier , they le . work must , pass if a wider throug and h , tlie more process solemn of responsi re-cast- - _bilityEngpeop
tainl write " These , a in short the truths preface expectation have to induced the of admirable enhancing me ( at the tract its earn intrinsic of e Madame st solicitation worth Bodichon , but of affectionatel a , friend not , cer ) to y - y
to ask , my country-women to consider the value of her theory , and to make some _"It suggestions is the Christian as to its theory adaptation of our to labor our social wants and organisation . like that the no class lish
aristocracy among us ) is exempt condemned from it to . perpetual La ~ bor—wor 7 c , should , none therefore ( , have Eng no ple"beian brand among us . Qualification for work should of be the class stamp have of
citizenshi and right to to have p this — no the qualification more badge effective of . nationality existence They are . in not Our the to repnblic women be resolved than every into the Mahometan nonentities a s ,
allow " There to their is no women country in Heaven in the , world where in the this mutations Gfold mines of fortune dis are
more certainand so sudden and pervading as . are - covered in our sterile in newl , mount y acquired ains ; lead reg mines ions ; crop inexhaustible out into gold mines ; and of the coal enterprises are found audacities of convert the of this
of commerceand the speculation , poor man year into spring the , possessor a series of of a unforeseen palace or a failures principality and sudden of the next disappointments . From like .
, causes "What security is there for against work them for which ; and the how want is this of security to will be attained afford ?
Only by qualification s society a , market ie . to this ation in the education of the
, tlieir of rich Is becoming there parents any , , reference b beyond y some a improbable faint qualifi and and indefinite c fatal reverse reference of to fortune the possibility , _Teachers daughters of ?
133 Notices Of Books.
133 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/61/
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