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    and suffered much , —who have endu red penalties that another ' s crimes

    have purchased—who have sowed the seed , but never been allowed to reap the harvest—who have lived in hope , but died without fruition , — can philosophy contemplate them , and deny the immortality of-the soul ? If there be a belief beautiful and beatifying , it is the belief of the eternal life of the good , and the everlasting reunion of the attached V—p . 205 , vol . i .

    In the remarks on the qualities and training which are desirable for those whose sphere of exertion is the chamber of sickness or debility , there is that sound and strong sense , combined with good feeling , which ou g ht to recommend this work far beyond the precincts of the circulating library . ' Nursing should be held as a profession , and its professors be endowed with a suitable education—be called to the exercise of its duties

    while yet in the vigour of life , and not after . Appointed to act as the adjunct of the surgeon and physician , ought they not to possess some kindred intelligence ? How often , for the want of this , has the best medical advice proved nugatory ! It is not contended or desired that women should supersede or rival the male practitioner , since excess of sympathy , it is to be feared , would ever be liable to endanger female efficiency . But as the assistant , the agent of the medical man , woman , under ail circumstances of illness , is , beyond description , essential ; but it must be cultivated woman , capable of comprehending the intelligence she acts with , and the necessities she acts on . * We shudder to think of the mischief and misery ignorant nurses have done and may cause . They are about humanity when it lies in the prostration of physical and , consequently , mental weakness , — when it is drawing its first breath , and essaying its dawning powers . A few years ago in France ,- —perhaps still in the remote provinces , — it was common for nurses to compress the heads of infants by actual violence or continued pressure , if the shape of the skull did not happen to please them . In our own country , in our own day , the administration of ardent spirits , from a motive of mistaken kindness , is common , especially among the poorer classes ; and , be it remembered , the best benefactors and the brightest ornaments of the human

    species have been given to the world by poor women . * Neglect and indifference to mankind in the mass pervade society throughout , and generate the mischief that lame laws and subsequent quackery vainly attempt to cure . In nothing is the truth of this assertion more conspicuous than in all that regards the birth and first years of the human being . It is the fate of the great majority of the species to fall from the hands of nature into the hands of an ignorant nurse and an ignorant mother ; after these , schoolmasters .

    doctors , divines , lawyers , and legislators tinker the injured individual till death comes to his rescue ; nor even then can his memory or his soul escape speculations that are busy with his fame here and his fate hereafter . But most conspicuous in this blindfold system , that paralyzes human progress , is the disregard of female cultivation . In all the departments of life in which men are called to act , some preparatory discipline is deemed necessary and afforded ; but where women are concerned , the presiding deity is chance . No provision

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    548 Character ; or , Jew and Gentile , X

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1833, page 548, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2620/page/36/