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is to be obtained b y encouraging or joining in mere declamation in favour of'liberal princi p les / unless those principles be acted upon in such wise as to facilitate to the poor tpe means of obtaining a wholesome sufficiency of nutriment for faoth the body and the mind . We have heard enough about ' liberal principles ; ' nay , some of those principles have been pushed more than far enough . It is now high time to act liberally to all parties ,, and to provide against the fatal errors of the Keformers in the time of the first Charles ; that , namely , of clamouring for the unimportant and the specious , to the neglect of the substantial and the beneficial . W . T . H .
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Acep ' hala . 771
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ACEPHALA .
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An essay on female education is ever a sort of writ of ad quod damnum to ascertain how much a woman may be allowed to know , without trespassing on the mental preserves of man , and flow little , consistently with securing for him every possible advantage . Her education is never considered otherwise than with reference to him ; though his education is never considered with reference to her . The aim of female education has been to make woman a kind of acephala , that is , an animal without a distinct head . It is
now about being felt , that this system does not work so well as it was hoped it would : that indistinct heads descend , by hereditar y right , on to the shoulders of sons as well as daughters , and that by aid of a few sympathetic unions , we run a chance of having some with no heads at all . This is going a step beyond Lord Monboddo , who bore testimony to the opposite
excess . In this wonderful age such an event were nothing to wonder at , hardly to lament ; some method for supplying heads by means of a patent machine would , doubtless , be forthwith forthcoming ; and heads of any degree of intellect , ' warranted to wear well in all climates , * would speedily divide public patronage with the highest polish for boots and newest cut for
periwigs . I once heard it suggested by a humorist , that if an abstract of the male sex could appear , like some of the fabled deities of
old , and address a similar abstract of the female sex on the subject in question , he would say , ' Whatever you do , see that you make us comfortable : on that condition we will g ive you lod ging , food , and clothing , and as much of our fascinating company as we think proper . There is some talk about the better Jevelopement of your head , we are quite unprepared upon the
Object ; had it been any plan for the enlargement or your heart , ° ven though it might threaten aneurism , it should have our i nstant patronage , for it is clear that you cannot love us too m uch . ' I cannot trust my memory regarding the reply to this
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 771, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/25/
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