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charge of such duties . Do reading and reflection , would the pursuit of any useful art , any branch of trade suited to her station and sex , take a woman out of her family more than dissipation , fashionable accomplishments , and the opportunities sought and made for their exhibition ? Are the more fortunate among the [ sex , those who move in a superior rank of life , to
whom the exertion of their faculties to aid in the support of their families is not necessary , are they rendered by solid studies less valuable as the companions and friends of their husbands , as the guides and instructors of their children ? Contrast with an accomplished modern young female the following portrait from an elegant writer . *
'The conversation of Hortensia is rather cheerful than gay , and more instructive than sprightly : but the more distinguished features of her mind are her memory and her judgment ; both which she possesses in a higher degree than is usually found in persons of our sex . She has read most of the capital authors both in English and French . There is scarcely a remarkable event , in ancient or modern history , of which she cannot give a clear and judicious account . T . o the
mathematics she is not wholly a stranger ; and though she did not think proper to pursue to any great length her inquiries of that nature , yet the facility with which she entered into the reasonings of that science , discovered a capacity for attaining a knowledge even of its abstruser branches . Her observations upon these subjects are the more to be relied on as they are the unbiassed dictates of good sense . Her extensive knowledge and refined sense have not , however , raised her
above the necessary avocations of female science ; they have only taught her to fulfil that part of her character with higher grace and dignity . She enters into the domestic duties of her station with the most consummate skill and prudence . Her economical department is calm and steady ; she presides over her family like the intelligence of some planetary orb , conducting it , without violence or disturbed effort , in all its proper directions .
To make ' well-ordered home man ' s best delight / mind is necessary , a presiding intellect , without which activity degenerates into a troublesome restlessness , a teasing interference , and even cleanliness and neatness into a tiresome scrupulosity . But every woman has not a domestic establishment to occupy her , every woman has not a family to nurse and train , every woman has not a husband able to ma intain her and that family .
The greatest benefits conferred upon society have been in general by the agency of men unconnected with , undisturbed by family cares . It is not necessary that every one should marry ; in populous states , under expensive governments , prudence keeps many in celibacy . This , if it is an evil , is now likely to be increased : various channels are open to single men , into which to divert their energies and render them honourable to themselves and
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496 On Female Education and Occupations .
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* Fitzosborne .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 496, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/56/
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