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ON THE CONDITION OF WOMEN IN ENGLAND.
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Par and near rings the loud shout of freedom , and the clang of the bursting fetters of bondsmen resolving to be free * Great moral truths are now stirring to the very depths of society , and half the world is plunged in the sea of politics , setting at naught
all antique precedents , and looking only to the utility of those things which are to come . And this is well . But it would be still better , if those engaged would reflect , that as that which is taken by the sword may be retaken by the sword , even so that which is won by the spirit-stirring excitement of political agitation , may be again lost in the revulsion , when the spirit shall be
laid in slumber , or an excitement of a new kind shall prevail . Only by laying a firm ground-work of just public opinion , can the causes of future strife be entirely removed ; but to the very root of the evil , few have yet adverted . Well-intentioned men have frequently said , ' Give us the boys to educate , and we care not what you may do with the men . * There is a deeper depth than
this . A philosopher would say , * Give me the women to educate , and the whole world shall be fashioned after the pattern I may lay down . ' The philosopher of old , when the father told him that he could buy a slave for the price he required for teaching his child , replied , Do so , and you will then possess two slaves !' Even thus is it with our women . We make of them bond-slaves ,
and with their milk they breathe the self-same spirit into our children . The influence of women—attractive women , and a large proportion of the English women are attractive , —is all but boundless ; be they slaves or companions , sensual toys or reasoning friends , their influence is still exerted either for good or for evil . The
child that is born takes the mould of its mother , in mind as in body , and she can model the infant hero , or form the plastic and emasculate slave with equal facility , according to the bent of her own disposition ; and the impression thus given is lasting . Can it be expected , that the imperfect model should give forth a perfect cast ?
Whatever be the rank of our females , whether high or low , they are , with few exceptions , as much slaves as the inmates of a Turkish haram , though after a different fashion . The difference between the classes here , is , that the poor man seeks an efficient working slave , the rich man , an agreeable and well-taught haram slave . The man in middling circumstances endeavours , if possible , to combine both . In this classification I do not include the
cases of reasoning and delightful mutual affection , which , of course , are to be found in all classes , where human nature has not been corrupted by bad teaching ; but alas ! these cases are as nothing in the great mass . What is the education of the women of the higher classes ? Does it not consist almost entirely in what are
On The Condition Of Women In England.
ON THE CONDITION OF WOMEN IN ENGLAND .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 217, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/1/
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