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in practice , that women are quicker in . acquirement than men ,, and although irt some cases , their gentleness , and tenderness , and self-sacrificing disposition , may fender their judgment lesfc perfect irt early life than that of the colder-hearted mefi , their powers of imagination ^ and possession of all those qualities which are
calculated to embellish life , are of infinitely greater amount . Were the judgment of Women trained , and their powers brought forth , so far from becoming the rivals of men , they Would become intelligent friends , fts well as affectionate companions ; they would cease to be alternate toys and drudges , and become valuable assistants . * It is not fouild in practice , that intelligence in men renders
them worsfc members df society ; Why then should it bef the case with women ? None but a fool , would change the voluntary and cheerful attendance of a free servant for the compulsory and sullen service of the slave , and none but a fool would prefer the purchased inmate of an Eastern haram , to the high-minded irotnen who will abound in England , when the frioral disabilities under which they labour shall be altogether removed . But to of
^ we must go altogether the root thfe evil . Woman must be made morally the equal of man . Hitherto , precisely after the custom of the Turks , whotn we abuse , we have required of women but one virtue ^—chastity . The Woman Who has studiously preserved this virtue , has been allowed to indulge in other vices , almost with impunity , tihd those vices have been the result of re taining her in doificJstic slavery . Deprived of mind by her moral disabilities , she has in some cases resorted to alcohol , and on the
complaint of her lord she has replied , ' I have kept my marriage vow P and in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred she might have added , which yoti have riot doi ? e . ' With a craving for excitement of any kind , in the absence of mental power she longs for fine clothes , or fine furniture , which her lord refuses , and she runs him
in debt with impunity , knowing that there is no law to punish her —that she is Kfem / me couverte , an infant under the care of a protector , who must be responsible for her actions . The only remedy for all these evils is to make her free , to make her a responsible agent . The present state of her mind is unhealthy , as may be
observed by the works which are published for her Use principall y * wherewith the circulating libraries abound ; it is also shown forth in the general want of taste iti dress and furniture , and most of the matters whfch she regulates , evincing an entire want of acquaintance with the principles by which taste must be regulated ,
* It h * s been frequently observed , that women who are left widows under circumstances of peculiar difficulty , have their slumbering energies called forth by the necessity of exertion for the welfare of their children ; and , under those circumstances , they accortiplish thingi under which their less energetic husbands have sunk . French women Are remarkable for their business capacity , and it is getting more common in Kwgland . Would that it were not so 1 Would that instead or drudges , their time were made available at teachers of theii children , or constant watchers ovtw their ripening p + wftt .
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Ori the Condition of Wornen in England . WT
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/11/
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