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SELF REFORM , OR INDIVIDUAL EFFORT^ 241
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a our taste imparting for refinement * to them , our "by labor means is of but culture half , performed a change . of habits Unless and we
hi can her imp tastes lant the in -wish palaces , for will purer still pleasures be favorite , and resorts imbue and them disorder with
and g vice will , s g till continue to reign in the habitations , of our uncultivated and demoralised heathen population .
content Undeveloped to dwell or in blunted the midst sensibilities of obj can ects alone offensive make to human the senses beings . feel
ings "Were somewhat ignorance refined replaced and b rendered y moderate capable instruction of receiving , and the pleasure - should
cease even from to be the disgusted mere presence by those visions of order of and dens cleanliness of filth and their , we darkness clouded ,
in which so many of our poorer fellow creatures spend , better days and aid in starless implanting nights such in our desires large and crowded refining cities the . habits "Who of could our
hard Those working into whose people hands than the wealth women has of been our given middle , and classes consequentl ? y timethe
with that wealth a superabundance of unemployed , seem most fitting agents -for such labor , and the mind field is is a large one .
then Every agent responsible ; human responsible being far in endowed the as his first with instance a le rational or for teaching his own acts a actions responsible on , those and
so examp around him . . It is our shrinking from such responsibility , our nonacting in accordance with the creed we profess , which in which renders so many
mere of us cumberers the useless of beings the ground we are , weeds in the to be circle cast aside as listless worthless we move . ,
With so much to be donewherefore should anyone be or , indifferent ? It is true thateven in this age of progress , we are now and then
is position met to b make y some happens people who , to argue discontented be a that lowl the y with or consequence a difficult their position one of increased . in This instead life is , knowle when a of fallacy being this dge ,
productive for sound effects kno of w discontent led sinc ge e and the or proper hi of hest envy mental wisdom , is calculated training shews , that to produce it is not the the opposite , g
whether it peculiar shews avocation that that labor the or individual be pursuit at the which must forge di di with gnifies gnif brawny y either his labor arm man , , speaking no or woman matter in ,
the senate , or wielding the pen . Neither the hammer of the smith , the distinction exalts rostrum the more man of , the the clearl orator di y gnit seen , y nor must there the be pen would in of himself the be writer more , and dignifie self were -respect s this or
observed putation It cannot , of and be allowing consequentl denied that multitudes y with a hi , g all her to our state live doings of and morals , we die lie . in under gross the and
imbeni midst ghted of us ignorance , waiting : to swarms be civilized of adults and christianized and children . are How in told long the
are they to wait ? "A little knowledge puffeth ux 3 " we are ,
Self Reform , Or Individual Effort^ 241
SELF REFORM , OR _INDIVIDUAL EFFORT _^ 241
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/25/
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