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    bridles into mouths , and the whole social machine moves in harness ,, and , withal , often too with brass enough about it . But if the icy and infected moral atmosphere has not prevented the

    appearance of genius , it has continually destroyed or perverted its p ower , and refracted its light . Many there are who have earned the meed of fame b y submitting to desecration , and who then , if they had written till doomsday , would never have benefited the world . But I will not say ,

    * Who builds a church to God and not to fame "Will never mark the marble with his name . * Posterity is generally more just ; it conies up with those whom contemporaries did not understand , and therefore could not properly appreciate , and thus it is , and thus it will long be , that the

    man of genius wants a meal while living , and receives a monument when dead . The multitude , educated as they are , prefer paying for amusement and flattery rather than for instruction and plain truth ; thus singers and dancers are enabled to build palaces , and philosophers and philanthropists have not where to lay their heads .

    To hasten the change which must arrive , if humanity be ever to know an approach to happiness , education must be the grand mover ; and let me not be deemed partial when I say the education of woman even more than man . Amid all the narrowness and selfishness exhibited regarding her , there are among men many and splendid exceptions ; and these , as much as the injury

    and injustice done to woman , make me yearn for her due elevation . Difficult is it to such men to find fitting mates , and evil is the consequence to themselves and to society . The union which does not improve the parties , deteriorates them ; if it does not aid them to advance , it compels them to retrograde . If any views of this kind induce celibacy , then is the world defrauded of offspring ,

    whose inherited nature and parental education might have made them treasures to their species . There is another point which must not be lost sight of—the mixed nature of humanity ; the petty and the profound perpetually meet in the same person ; the man who in the morning was sovereign in a hall of science , may in the evening be flattered by a compliment to the curl of his

    whiskers . Man needs the safeguard of mental strength in woman , as much as woman needs the safeguard of physical strength in man . None can view the subject truly , without feeling how much it is the interest of each to be equal friends and mutual sustainers . Some part of every person ' s nature is derived from progenitors ;

    the mother often endows the son , and the sire the daughter ; and the differences so strongly insisted on , arising out of organisation and education , exist almost as much between man and man , as between man and woman . Were man wise , he would throw open the field of knowledge to his siater ; nay more , he would allure

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    Atephalct . 775

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 775, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/29/