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with the show of power , and defrauded ., if usurpers can be defrauded , of the substance ; for beneath the edifice of despotism subterraneous passages have been planned , and secret recesses sunk ; and the tyrant , who treads his polished floors in fancied security , often falls , or is drawn through the traps connected with the hidden machinery created by folly , whim , or worse offsprings
of suppressed or misdirected intellect and sensibility ); men , instead of being as they are , the slave of the slave , would be elevated into friends and fellow-workers with beings full of active intelligence and open honest tenderness—attributes of universal human nature , but which the offices of wife and mother are perhaps most especially calculated to heighten and increase—attributes which , when developed under the influence of freedom and knowledge , will present images which the pen of the poet has never yet pictured , his fancy scarce conceived .
' Oh , that I could pour my heart out to humanity , as of old they did libations to the gods , if that mig-ht propitiate those now supinely slumbering on their energies , or mischievously perverting them ! ' The false position of woman has created a world of wild mischief among mankind ; her taking her true position only can
repair it . Oh , that I could call her , and see her come forth like a redeeming angel—see her shut the dazzling casket of her cruel vanities , and open that which contains the resplendent spirit that God has given her—given her , not to be drossed by diamonds , but . to be kindled by the bliss-giving power with which love and intelligence can endow it !'
( M ' Never , Maria , do you and I get on with a story / said Pauline . You are too fond of the moral , / of the graphic ; thus the mere incident is smothered or lost sight of , between us . Pray dry your eyes , and come down into the every-day world again ; to assist your descent look across the way at Miss Bullock , now Mrs . Button . From the period of her becoming marriageable , till her marriage , she passed her time to as little purpose as a dormouse , and thousands of women do the like . '
' Then who shall wonder , ' interrupted Maria , ' at the unions they form . Why liking , let alone love , must be so welcome an excitement in the stupid scene they occupy , as to be hailed with eagerness , and little embarrassed by inquiry . Love , they say , i » Dorn of idleness ; then it is that son of Nox and Erebus who
so ill deserves the name he bears , and it is no matter of surprise tfcat he takes wing after wedlock , when some of the business of life necessarily begins . The real god is born of sympathy , the offspring of intelligence and knowledge , and he grows in vigour in proportion to the beauty , excellence , and variety of pursuit in (which he succeeds in uniting two congenial spirits . But to your heroine : —her bridal could have been no ordinary biuitiefts ; the white robe , the orange-flower chaplot , the
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« Q Sketches of Domestic Life .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/14/
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