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' Ye would be dupes and slaves , And so ye are . * I despise , let me rather say deplore , the intrigante no less than the writer on ' Women of Business . ' But he looks only at effects ; if he must condemn , be it the cause . It is discipline
that makes the soldier , not the soldier the discipline . Women cannot come openly forward in the affairs of life , and finesse must gain that which freedom should give . As for his assertion that there ' never was a female politician but looked to the loaves and fishes / I will ask him how often do male politicians stand acquitted of the charge ? Verily , let him who hath no sin cast the first stone !
Women will soon appear , and I speak with a prophetic confidence in their inherent power ,, who will war like angels of dread with lightning , and others who will win their way like angels of love in sunshine . The one will be more beautiful than the other ; but perhaps both may be essential . The lightning is necessary to pierce the thundercloud ; if the cloud come upon human destiny , the lightning must rend and scatter it ; but if
there be a clear sky , with only here and there scudding vapours , then for the sunburst ! that will banish partial darkness by perfect light . Upon a fair field , the heart of man , far more the heart of woman , will open its bland and beautiful treasure , and say unto all human creatures , ' Take what wealth I have , let me join it to the general stock , and , without any drawback for selfishness , increase the riches of sociality . '
c All that is custom now was innovation once ; ' all that is innovation now will be custom by-and-by . But the enemies o change feel a sort of cockney wonder , and sensibility to the
ludicrous , at anything which is new to them . To such the idea of a woman speaking in the House of Commons is almost as surprising as the idea of themselves speaking there , and nearly as laughable . But I will ask the thinking , the informed , the liberal man , —he who has felt his heart throb and his brain boat in
behalf of human nature , whether a woman , so armed and animated , though a new , would be a ridiculous sight in Parliament , or in a nobler assembly still , that of the enlightened of all classes of her country people ? If nature has endowed her with eloquence , and study possessed her with knowledge to serve the cause of her country , should she be declared incompetent , because she were wrapped in a silken shawl instead of a senator ' s robe ? because she spoke with a voice of silver instead of brass ?
As regards the guardianship of the poor , and the regulation of public morals , the least reflection is sufficient to show that the united agency of the sexes must be more efficient than the agency of either alone . In every parish there are women , elderly and old , who yet in the vigour of their health and intellect , might bestow on general interests those powers which their
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34 Quaker Women .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/34/
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