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180 " THE COBNHILL" ON MEN AND WOMEN.
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T Social He Calm Law Dis Is Passiona The...
respectabl . " Society / 5 lie sin the words of the
" CornMW y " reviewer , " Society seeks ays , not to reform the world , but to make its wheels run smoothl . " Of course that is the
real object of life , and properly unders y tood , makes it yield the greatest amount of enjoyment . Gluttons indeed there are who
and will some la times manner endea so v our a l t o ttle gra to tif hinder y their the desires smoot h t running oo open of socie ugy t ' s wheels , We they are rather too " strong ;"
p they lan , must they y , ho ill wever find . , accommoda t be suppose tter , i . t e . p themse leasanter lves in ? to the _tyiQ end general . A
li smoo ttle th below lthe the will surface find th over eir es which ecial society tastes have s whee no l t been run
forgotten y , , and y when they have feasted p as much as they like in ro the om lower and reg enj ions oy t he f p resul leasure ts , the a y " very come high int level o the of drawin female g
virtue . " For our reviewer admires female virtue particularly ; the he says best , u It greatest invests li of fe in its g charms eneral wi " th as such hat is could unques it tionabl ossibly y
be left out of a system especially ; framed to , give us as p much leasure as ossibleconsistentthat iswiththe smooth
p running of so p ciety ' s w , heels ? , , , It must be confessed that this system a little hardly
upon women , upon those on the high level presses , and also upon those not so fortunatelsituatedbut thenas our reviewer _naively
remarksWhat can y they do ? ; No doub , t they were made weak t o thin purp k , , by the all resu means lt to let us keep them table down hih ; roads it is h of orri the ble
infinite difficulty of running our wheels p smoo g thly any , longer , and " " i men f women pro en tec joy ti were on at , " present to and cease acquire . " to be th dependent at " liberty upon as to men mora for ls" support which
least Suc we h words are , that perh one aps , spark best left of without ure love an akin answer to the ; but love at
of goodness may say the love of God , is p far mi , ghtier as well as a far holier bondthan all the laws and penalties of tlie
own " Cornhill teachings ; " . and of it , purity is , we firml self-sacrifice y believe , to such genuine love , _fidelit with _ifs
and not to so poor a power , as fear of our , fellow men , that we y , owe the sanctity of our English homes .
because Virtue it so adds rooted a " , men charm cannot " to their indeed lives priz but e too because highl it y ; is not in
itself blessedness and strength : and when , they learn to prize it truly , not only for themselves and for those more fortunate
level women but whom for its they own would sake fence and as round a sacred so carefully to on be their cherished high , germ
whom and reverenced God has in created the , soul then of indeed every sh man all we and see every our ancient woman
180 " The Cobnhill" On Men And Women.
180 " THE COBNHILL" ON MEN AND WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/36/
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