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146 THE NEW ANTIOCH.
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Of The Some The Leading Years West - Met...
become amongst the which town ' s were -talk many and had ladies drawn ; for out the affair letters had in now the many
they commission allow newspapers had a woman _arrived . reported The to at general practise the that , conclusion after belief under a was careful its that that sanction ex the the amination court court . However had would of no the never ri , law g the ht ,
to exclude a candidate because she was a woman . The law simply required that the candidate , sex not being mentioned ,
two acquaintance should of the be three examined with jud which ges b gave y was three their essenti jud signatures al ges to on admission to the such law ; app - and books lication that , an if , the
the candidate should be admitted on motion . Thereupon undergo should judges announced be the admitted examination that . This the young and decision , if lad it y was should should received prove have by permission satisfactory the crowd to ,
present But the with much woman applause who . had made the lication was app
all now aware frightened of young the . conditions It came out by subsequentl which alone y she that could she was become not at a practitioner uncle ' s library . She and read had th indeed em , but got had some and no indeed idea law- that books she a systematic from not her
prepared examination to undergo would be that necessary examination , . She had s was upposed that her difficulty was her to be in the prejudices of This the she judges at and
barristersand not in own incompetency . once female confessed member , with tears much ; and to the her result own was mortification that the bar and gained to the no
, disappointment The incident which of the public I have . related was to mind a - my repre
sentative oneand cast a flood of light upon the subject of woman ' s rights , and wrongs , Its then and now occupy seemed ing so to large to a
be place this in : the wom public ankind mind is . now ag interpretation itated and anxious concerning me its sphere of action . For this there is much reason . The laws at
least and rules doubted which and environ debated women whether were m they ade had in ages souls which . Are _^ farmers , and mechanics content to cultivate their fields or do
willing their work to abide with such with imp the lements religions as or were governments used then ? of Are a corres men - with
ponding such anti date quated ? Yet laws they as render expect her woman legal to position be contented the greatest
anachronism of the age . Fortunately , she is giving signs that her it social the will modern real prej not difficulty udice be protestations much but is longer not in her in of possible this inability much or value ; that and to . law overcome onl For , y or as it in such is and this plain signs abolish or that that are
these barriers . , There were laws against man's being free also _,
146 The New Antioch.
146 THE NEW ANTIOCH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/2/
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