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There is a gleam upon the horizon . There is a breaking among the clouds and a hush of the warring winds ! The last number of the ' Journal of Education' contains an excellent paper , entitled c Public Instruction / and it actually makes the
education of woman its primary and principal theme ! You will not credit this . Turn to the number of the work in questionit is a rich number altogether . It has ,, among many fine thoughts and passages ,, one which ought to be written up in great gold letters in every market-place , meeting-house , or wherever else people assemble—it is as follows : —
' A child should never be degraded ; a child should never have to wife away a stigma from his character which he never can have deserved . Let money-loving England , the country in which wealth is more worshipped and poverty more despised than in any other , think of this .
But to return to my theme . It appears that M . Delessert , in the last session of the French Chamber of Deputies , said : — * The education of women is as worthy of your attention as that of men , and it is necessary that the laws on the education of girls should be revised . I request , therefore , that the minister of Public Instruction will prepare , for the next sessions , a law on this subject /
Thanks to M . Delessert . It is almost the eleventh hour ; but manumission is welcome come when it may . It is dispiriting , not surprising , that M . Guizot should reply as he did : —
The system of girls' schools , at the present day , is so unconnected and badly understood , that I am compelled to declare myself unprepared with , a set of reasonable propositions on the government of female schools ; nor can I yet fix the period when I shall be able to present a memorial on this subject . ' France , who takes the lead in all improvements , however she
may follow them up , has made this first move on the political chess-board , and other moves must follow : let only the importance of that greatest of all human interests—female educationbe recognised and acted upon , and I cheerfully leave the rest to time and woman . But I say to her , on the knees of my heart , if such an expression may be allowed me , be not yourself supine .
The moral sun , now rising with stronger and stronger light , day by day , upon the world , is penetrating the dark places , and making the very spiders of prejudice ashamed of their sullen work . The intelligence which exposes the abuse of power in one department will search it out in others ;—the moral courage which rises in behalf of an oppressed people , will take cognizance of the cause of degraded and insulted woman , of the suffering stultified schoolboy , of the back-branded , spirit-broken soldier
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FEMALE EDUCATION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/26/
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