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178 "THE CORNHILl/' ON MEN AND WOMEN.
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XXXI.—" THE CORNHILL " ON MEN AND WOMEN.
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t Social he calm law dis is passiona the...
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178 "The Cornhill/' On Men And Women.
178 " THE CORNHILl / ' ON MEN AND WOMEN .
Xxxi.—" The Cornhill " On Men And Women.
XXXI . — " THE CORNHILL " ON MEN AND WOMEN .
T Social He Calm Law Dis Is Passiona The...
t Social he calm law is assiona the aggregate te judmen conscience t of numbers of a peop unbiassed le . It is
human individual jud self p -seeking t must or be desire g ¦ it . is It capable is liable of to error rowt , as and all
susceptible of gmen improvement . ; We do not look to g it for very advanced truthbut we trust it as a stand faithful
server of recognised , moral order . Its function rong is akin to pre that of settled principles of action in our individual life—subject to
in sel t fish ellec impulses tual revision . But , bu what t int if ended our lig to ht be trol darknes our lawless s ? Wha or t if there be those who are strivingand not altogether
unsucwi cessfull th man y s ' triving s conscience , to build but wi a th social , law selfishne ? not s s accordance and vice ?
hard Doubt t less o follow our lig ht t is , o t ft en t shone somet hing y diml new y , at leas been t in Eng very
land ers , for to our come teachers , for , w the ard wr o iters enl in our advoca magazines t , of and oranized
newspap injustice , and protected vice ? py g ci There is an article in the September number of the
entitled CornMll i 6 Anti " which -Respectability appears to , " us and to is offend a review in of this Mrs way . Norton . It is ' s u Lostand _Saved" in the course of which the writer discusses
the social rule , which he lays down as follows : — " That she whenever is to be sociall a woman excommunicated is manifestly proved to be guilty allowed of particular for her
conduct faults , but that this is y not to be the case , with no excuse menwhose "being offences in that particular ; are left to be dealt with bindividualsaccording , to their
individual estimate of the particular circumstances y of the , case . " The course of the writer ' s argument can be very clearly
shown by a few extracts . tli are so ere " much so It is much is a clear more far more , better in delicatel the dependent first prospect y p framed lace on , of the that producing than op women inion men of , in the in the body the desired world present , mind than result , state and men in sp of their irit _^ and society ; case that are ,
tli what an in can the she case do ? of " men . If a woman is put out of the social synagogue , _# _# # « «? _#
question " There produces is no doubt immense , as a matter results , of and fact that , that wherever the existence it is vi of gorousl the rule y and in
virtu impartiall e , and y thereb administered y invests , it life produces in general a very with high what average is unquestionabl level of female y the "best and greatest of its charms . "
_t » _# _# _# * * too " With strong regard to be to held men by the such case bonds is different ; the . attempt * to * impose " # them Men would are
produce evils which cannot properly be described , but would be felt in every
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/34/
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