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spoil than U > perfect , he has to some extent succeeded , in , his foolish design : . ia weak desire of specious powri&ss . grpwii out of a vile-state of dependence . It is the moral fungus . which has sprung up amid the social refuse , , ,
AH beings love power , and loathe depw 4 ence . These two feelings are in constant action in every breast , and create what may be called the friction of the human machinery . There is but one . sole case in which the lover of liberty can endure dependence —^ ihat case is love—a case as applicable to one sex as to the other . A woman can bear dependence on the man she loves , not on man ; a man , on the woman he loves , not on woman . This aberration from- an essential state of feeling rests with the nature of the passion , which , prone to excess , will induce the lover to bankrupt himself for the sake of being made solvent by the beloved—for the sake of giving to her the bliss of creating that solvency . The wholesale state of dependence of one sex upon the other * tke established system of society , is one of its grand oankers . In the moral state , the only state in which humanity can stand erect and call itself humanity , such dependence need not , and ought not ,
to exist ; it belongs exclusively to the brute period of the species , when physical strength had its full sway , because it was a sole power . Erery moral being has rights ; having rights , duties ; since to respect and sustain the rights of others form the duties , and interest of the being who has rights of his own . Duties have been abundantly and severely decreed to woman , while rights h&ve been narrowly and barbarously denied her ; for the paltry immunities secured to her by law deserve no such name . Man ha « acted by her as all conquerors have acted by him , and she has acted by him as all the enslaved act by their subjugators . The gibbet and the gaol have been everywhere the necessary and
inseparable -accompaniments of the sceptre and the crozver , Man has * desired and endeavoured to erect every home into a monarchy , often an inquisition . But , like all inventors of tortures , he is himself the first to suffer by them . Mr . Canning , when he stood for Liverpool in 1818 , on one occasion observed , * I have been guilty of a great omission . It
too often happens that those who receive the greatest benefits , are , so long a « they are continued in the uninterrupted enjoyment of them , unmindful of the hand * from which tney receive them *' ( How true this is !) * I state this infirmity of our nature , not as a sufficient apology , but as thtbestl can offer , for having , during this election , omitted to ascribe due influence to the female part at yonr community . *¦¦ ¦ * ¦ * * ? ? ? . ? But , however remis * I -htwe been here , I have not been forgetful eUewhere bfthe claims of the female world to a due participation in matters of eUtttion , Of tlie plans of parliamentary reforta , on
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 496, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/60/
