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the descriptions of gallant bunts in which tigers turned tail and lions turned pale before the potent eye of their human pursuer ! Some such an effect will , I fear , follow when women come to fill the chair of moral anatomy ; a different view will then be taken and given of some of the leviathans of fame ,, from Milton to Montgomery ! How little was the conduct of the great Napoleon
to Madame de Stael ; and as for the aristocratic poet and the politic statesman , they are dearer to fancy and finesse than to truth and integrity . What subjects for the professorship I have just named has the new Poor Law Act brought forward ? What is the moral to be drawn from that chapter of human history ? That man will play the tyrant so long as he may play it with impunity , and that he is but half human , half civilized ,, so long as he is opposed to the equality of the other sex .
We have a people who recognise this equitable principle . William Howitt tells us that the great founder of his sect ' placed women on a footing of social equality with man , and gave them , in his society , meetings of civil discipline of their own , where they transacted their own affairs of association , and learned to rely on their own intellectual and moral resources . ' What have been the effects of this svstem ? Hear it in the
words in which William Howitt speaks of his own people : * Among all the various society I have mingled in , I have nowhere seen a greater purity of life and sentiment ; a more enviable preservation of youth-like tenderness of conscience ; a deeper sense of the obligations of justice ; of the beauty of punctuality ; or so sweet a maintenance of the domesticities of life . '
This has been the result , if it were not the object , of George Fox ' s policy : he acted , probably , more from justice than foresight , and the sequel shows how well justice consists with the truest , interests of man . The effect of female influence does not
appear among Friends , as it does elsewhere , now and then ,, as an epigrammatic moral to a story ; it pervades the whole economy of the sect ; it emanates from all their proceedings ; it is infused into the moral atmosphere of the community , as perfectly as . the harmonies of nature are blended , of which it is impossible to point out the one which completes the universal diapason .
A quakeress , on her missions of moral and religious business , goes 1 o various parts of the world and to different scenes of life with no protection but her purpose and her purity—secure in her common sense and rig ht feeling , and her power of appeal to these in others . What an antithesis is presented in the woman who
cannot walk out unattended by a footman , and Elizabeth Fry , the friend and counsellor of felons , who turned , with her bri g ht benevolent face , to them , whom all others turned from ! Who that contemplates the mere nonentities of fashion and sentiment can forbear to exclaim , —
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Quaker fromen . 33
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/33/
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