On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
brains to the counter than other men do to the Commons , but because those brains have no information , no exercise ; these men are so employed as not merely to make them superficial thinkers , but so as in a great degree to preclude their thinking at all .
( In this age of intellectual light , ought not some effort to be made for these doomed dispensers of tapes and bobbins ?) A similar parallel may , and has been , drawn between the character and capacities of military men and of women with the same justice , upon the same principle .
Why do grey hairs bring no honour to woman ? I may say , why do they bring dishonour ? for an old woman is the ne plus ultra of a term of contempt ! Because women are taught to think the carriage of the head of more consequence than its contents , and they emulate the almost empty ears in a corn field , which the less wheat they hold the higher they wave .
And now , while I think of it , to inquire into that notion , ( which makes men so vain , that if vanity was gaugeable and exciseable , we should have fewer male absentees , since few of fortune could pay the export duty , ) the notion that women ' s whole lives and thoughts are devoted to the purpose of pleasing the men . Granted , in very , very many cases ; and for what ? For them ? Let them not lay the flattering unction to their souls , for their
admiration , for the aliment on which vanity feeds . It is the gift , not the giver ; the offering , not the offerer : a vain woman often despises the slave , while she seeks his homage . The phrenologist will never find an animal with the organ of destructiveness so
large as the coquette ; to awaken fruitless love and excite groundless jealousy is her sole aim and object . The more people she keeps awake . , the sounder she sleeps ; their tortures are her triumphs . This is the creature which female education makes , and not this alone ; many other less piquante , perhaps , but quite as paltry . Retribution is one of the universal laws .
The moral institutions of custom , like the legal institutions of courts , are streams which have had their source in the darkness of past times ; the sun of reform must be permitted to purify them , as it does other waters , or their fetor will spread infection . Better to arrest the cause of disease than fee the physician . Heaven knows , the sins of the fathers have been visited on the
sons , in all that relates to social mal-administration . In the abstract , man ' s policy is hateful ; in the detail , deplorable : and I know not which deserves most compassion , the wrongs he has done to us or to himself . The wise and worthy among the men of present times are the sufferers for the unwise and unworthy of past times . The want of a true standard of morals has tended to universal debasement ; has made an ostensible morality the only rule , and an uncomprehended creed the only refuge . Let men and women see themselves as they really are ; look
Untitled Article
Female Education . Ill
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/31/
-