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146 THE MEETINGS AT LIVEBPOOL.
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for each section , might not be uninteresting to the readers of our Journal . In particular we have carefully noted any passage in
which reference was made to the condition or duties of women in regard to society at large . The labors of the Association have been
materially assisted by many ladies who have contributed papers on the condition of different portions of the pioorer classes ; and what
the best men begin to expect from our sex , was wisely and beautifully expressed by Lord John Russell in his opening address .
Speaking of education , both normal and reformatory , he proceeds to add :
" These instances lead , me to the other remark I have to make . Every one must have observed the new influence which is not being
asserted or sought , but is falling to the lot of women in swaying the destinies of the world . It is not a share in directing the
patronage of ministers , or guiding the councils of kings , as in former timesbut a portion in the formation and the moulding of public
opinion , . For a great part of our periodical literature , for much of that world of fiction in which many live and nearly all take delight ,
we are indebted to the ethereal fancy , the delicate perception , and the grace of expression possessed by woman . It seems to me , and
I am confirmed in this opinion by the bright examples of heroic benevolence we have seen of late years , that if the young
generation are to be an improvement upon their fathers , if sin is to have less dominion and religion more power , if vice is to be abashed
a and regeneration virtue to be . ' honored , it is to woman that we must look for such
The Association opened its proceedings at half-past seven on the evening of Monday , the 11 th of October , by a long inaugural address
delivered by Lord John _Riissell , in which was sketched with a masterly hand , the general field of labor on which they were about to enter .
The object of the Association originally stated to be "to form a point of union among social reformers , so as to afford those engaged
in all the various efforts now happily begun for the improvement of the people an opportunity of considering social economics as a
whole , " comprised five special departments of human exertion . 1 . Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law .
2 . Education . 3 . Punishment and Reformation .
4 . Public Health . 5 . Social Economy .
Of Law , affcer speaking of the great sim _£ _3 lifications carried out in France and America , Lord John Russell
observed" If we now proceed to consider what has been done in this country we shall find that from the days of Lord Chancellor Bacon
to those of Lord Chancellor Chelmsford the revision and consolidation of the law has been a consummation _devoiitly to be wished .
Is it not time that we should set about the task in earnest ? I will venture to say , that if four or five persons of competent
qualifica-> " -Ml ..
146 The Meetings At Livebpool.
146 THE MEETINGS AT _LIVEBPOOL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/2/
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