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274 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Speech of the Earl of Shaftesbury, at th...
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Ladies, Paris, November 20, 1861.
visited and examined minutely the Victoria Press _^) is a work developing" at Paris into " La Societe de Patronage pour une
Institution des A . rts et Metiers des Femmes , " the object of which , is to establish for women , on the model of that already established for
men , an institution of handicrafts and trades , in order to _give employment to those left destitute by the death of a husband or a _
father . The programme traced out is a large one— " La Sodete se propose de venir en aide d tontes les mise ' , " and also to follow
with particular care young women and girls , who , considering a solid education the most solid and durable fortune , have spent all
their funds in acquiring the necessary branches of knowledge to obtain a diploma as one of that overstocked body , "Les Instituirices _"
Wha of whom t is to it become is calcula of ted the there fifty- nine rejected ty for every ones vacancy for whom that i ( home offers " .
is about as great a reality as for the " ouvr , iere ? " This is a problem about which the Legislature does not trouble itself ; and
which the Society sets itself to solve at its bureau , 25 , Hue Ponthieu , a Paris .
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274 Notices Of Books.
274 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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Speech Of The Earl Of Shaftesbury, At Th...
Speech of the Earl of Shaftesbury , at the Freemason Hall , Friday , April 19 Classes t 7 i _, 1861 , especiall , on behalf y those of a of Benevolent Limited Means Asylum . Kent for the & Co Insan . Price e of the 6 d Middle .
We refer to our advertisement pages for the plan of an institution of which the principles and the objects are declared to have the
_apjoroval of the Commissioners in Lunacy . Lord Shaftesbury states that he is satisfied from Ms own experience , founded upon ,
considerable inquiry , that lunacy is increasing , and rapidly _increasingamong those who may be called the educatedthe intellectual
and , the more active-minded class- He alludes to , the great excite- , ment in every department of the world—politicalmoralreligious .
" We must also see the great activity , the rapacity , , restlessness , , and feverish habits of commercial life ; from the richest capitalist to the
smallest tradesman there is unceasing competition , the one striving against the other , and eager by extreme exertion to appropriate to
himself what he regards as the great chance . " The same is observable in professions . To all these sources of agitation we must add
the extraordinary powers and frequency of locomotion ; " the manner in which the whole public seems to be perpetually on . the stir ;"
~ r-all which leads Lord Shaftesbury to the conviction that insanity
is increasing , and rapidly increasing , among those for whose benefit
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/58/
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