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How easily might they purify taste , and reform manners , and elevate morals , and by their influence bend institutions in the most beneficent direction ! How easily might they imbue children ' s minds with those pure feelings , just principles , and noble purposes , which would ensure a rising generation worthy of the
country whose patriots and poets , philosophers and philanthropists , have yet the start of the majestic world , ' How easily might they help forward those social changes and improvements for which nations are ripening , which are only obstructed by brute force and blind prejudice , and which must issue in arrangements in which their own interest is perhaps the deepest ; diffusing more impartially ,
equally , and universally than heretofore , all the good which can be conferred by political right , and the means of knowledge and enjoyment ! To do all this , by means direct and indirect , by the interest they feel , the influence they exert , and the energy they inspire in man ' s exertions , as well as by their own efforts , is their business in the world . We blame them not for not having hitherto
fulfilled it as they ought ; man has placed them in degrading circumstances , and through them the degradation has recoiled upon himself . In his disgust at female pretension , ( not a jot worse than male pretension ; and either , only disgusting because unfounded , ) he has crippled female intellect , and thereby enfeebled his own . In training a dependent , he has lost a companion . In the passing admiration of superficial accomplishment , he has fore- *
gone the permanent advantage of solid attainment . As aristocracy has legislated for him , so has he for woman , —both the worse for success in what they deemed the pursuit of their peculiar interests . In claiming science , politics , philosophy , and all the higher regions of thought for himself , and warning off intrusion by placarding them with the word unfeminine , he has deprived himself of the
best sympathy , the most efficient aid , the mightiest stimulus , and the noblest reward of his own most honourable toils . All this is very foolish and inconsistent ; but legislation and society are lull or anomalies .
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On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures , by Charles Babbage , Esq . A . M . London , Knight . This is the work of a true philosopher , and belongs to the shelf on whicji stand Mr . Bailey * s Essays on the Formation and Publication
of Opinions , and Dr . Herschell s Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy . It is so rich in sound principles and curious details , that we can scarcely select from it , each portion being in the vicinity of some other portion which there is also good reason for extracting . We transcribe the Introduction as presenting the best general view of the work that we can offer to our readers .
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Q 42 A Potitfc&land Social Anomaly ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 642, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/66/
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