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76 APROPOS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.
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0 The Article Entitled "Women And Politi...
national A great wealth quantity is the of every summum thing constitutes bonum of the national economist wealth ; corn , and
clean wine , shirts and oil without , purple s and tint fine , good linen brick ; blankets houses , for and every glass bod machines in y , and the ,
windows . Of course , to get all this , 1 st—the producing must agement be as to perfect the investment as possible of ; cap 2 nd ital — . there Let must us take he no these discour two
points separately . _sible .- Firstl We y—The must producing not be cont machines ent with must old slow be as cumbrous perfect as inven pos - -
mechanism tions . , or stup or id can heads hear to of manage more intelli them gent . If workmen we get , we a better must
~ b y all means , change for the better , and that without delay . tion ] Now were this would all inanim be very ate well or if if the bein agents anim emp at loyed ethey in produc had no - ; g
other useno other faculty , than , that of producing , wealth . Let old us break loug , up h to our the old shed iron , and and our burn old our inning old wood -wheel ; let to us Wardour send our
use street p but , and one set aim up if bran th , ey new cannot ones ; fulfil sp these that things let them have be but sacri one
ficed , without remorse ; . But the human machine , —the brain , which we require to keep our iron wheels times going what — must suppose do that ?
is Un slow fortunatel , cumbrous thi , s and brain behind is not the self-existent , it is indissoiubl we y y , , with heart
connected with a stomachand not unfrequently a . Considered ht to show in the it no light favour of a , producing if it is deficient brain mere in ly concentrative , we certainly - ;
ness oug if it slopes back at an uncomfortable angle , if it is squeezed if down its , eyes flat over have the what eyes chiefl Georg , or peak e Elliot s up to with admirabl eat unnaturable rather y terms than a sharpness to " bovine ,
the gaze feast , " and of its reason mouth and the y flow opens of the soullet us have express none of wil linen it . l have If , blankets we to trust and without to it shirts for . our , we corn shall , oil come , and off wine , shor , t purp , and le somebod and fine y
Butunfortunatel go y , this brain belongs to A Man , and the young again creatur are , e brain was linked s so , flat to absurd , four slop or as ing five to , get or hungry peaked married but young , which , are and stomachs the four result or , and irve not ; hearts which other quite
unproductive order easy about in that which crushing somebod we creatures don if we 't whom know whom come we much too we don near do , 't see see the , are operation to hav we be e are sent blankets . All adrift these and in may
want which creature shirts . against does Thi in not spite s p too hysical include of is y his putting want unp the leasant whole , we it mi in proximity question ght the sacrifice simp . ; If lest but it the unfortunatel way were flat , - and p brained hysical one y ,
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76 Apropos Of Political Economy.
76 APROPOS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/4/
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