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* The only art her guilt to cover And hide her shame from every eye ; To give repentance to her lover And wring his bosom—is to die .
And how many have thus died ! Worse—how many have lived a living-death in scorn and infamy ., spoiled , perforce , of all that is beautiful in woman ; compelled to be all that is base in human nature ! Let any one stand apart from this question and look at the case here presented dispassionately , as at a problem , and , leaving feeling quite out of the consideration ^ , ask his common sense what he thinks of it ! And to see what slavery will do for the slave—to this system women have not only submitted , this system they have assisted to uphold , and even now there are
many think it moral and religious to uphold it . ( The dog which has long worn a collar will show the mark even though the collar be removed . ) For what was this nefarious system established ? That men might secure having legitimate offspring and a wanton licence . But the two things are incompatible as a universal rule : many a proud pedigree is , as regards purity of descent , a rope of sand . While men are corrupt women cannot be wholly otherwise ; as easy were it to suppose that one-half of the atmospheric air could be tainted and the other half pure .
As national happiness depends on purity of morals , hap piness and morality are impossible to that people whose educa
tion does not aim at equal morals and equal intelligence for the sexes . In religion we especially want the junction of charity , and in morals of justice .
The negative character , incapable of energy , and void of depth and discrimination , which a short-sighted selfish policy has sought to impress upon women , may wear the aspect of amability , but it wants its soul .
' A smile on the face of the waters may glow , While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below ; So the cheek may be tinged with a soft sunny smile , While the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while . '
From my intense detestation of morbid sensibility , maudlin sentimentality , and slavish submission , I am sometimes led to adopt a strong idiom , so that I shou ] d little wonder if I were to hear it said , that I was one who walked out with a pistol instead of a parasol , and a blunderbuss in place of a boa ; that I had eschewed the bodkin for the battle-axe ; that I had forsworn the social smile for the aspect of the grim stone heads which , on prison doors , petrify the passers by ; and that , instead of loving jest and song / I never spoke but to breathe 4 Curses , not loud , but deep . ' But let me say , ( without reference to self , but to general human
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108 Female Education .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/28/
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