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arid TOiniB&Hlteffeeti ; feeaeled-feul Uave a , neitf regktt > QfWfi * o her to deplore it ^^ tW / walio (<> £ < iircum ^ i 4 iati <^ i , whiehahe ctouklxiafc werleap > renaovedUto w * ik beyond theta * Mrs * Walton wa $ f * highraunded woman , and soo » impressed Isabella with respect and affection ; Maiho in jtetum wOli upon the anxious mother ' s heart , making her half forgive the ruin she had caused .
(' Mr . Hervey / said Mrs . Walton one day , as leaning on his arm she walked round the garden , I have somewhere seen it said that it is a dangerous tiling to employ a steam-engine to \\\ m ai . lathe at a toy-shop . Some such dangerous thing has been , and is being done , as regards female talent . Waste , power will employ itself—if not for the purposes of good , for those of evil /
'We see that every day , said Mr . Hervey , * in the misapplied energy and ingenuity of untaught , half-taught , and mistaught infcfi / Do not confine your views exclusively to men / resumed Mrs . Walton . 'To women ? * he asked with a smile .
* Neither so . Direct them to human nature > of which one sex is bs important a part as the other . Human nature can only be understood by a perfect knowledge of both : human . nature can only be served by an equal advancement of both . Much has to be put from our literature , institutions , laws , customs , and manners , to redeem man from the degrading marks of his own ignorant pride , as well as to raise woman from her miserable
vassalage . * All this is new to me , ' said Mr . Hervey , ' but I listen to you ^ fkh _ pleo 8 ure . ' v ! i 4 To aspire is the privilege of humanity / resumed Mrs * Walton , Pawning with her subject . * The erect attitude , the perceptive powers ; the reflective faculties , all attest how much man has the privilege of looking far beyond , far above himself ; but the first
aipiraticm of this sentiment ( capable of illimitable expansion ) rttfaB'i gnorant self-esteem—a vulgar desire of superiority , relatively , not really ; ( hiding it difficult to raise himself , he thought of the jeccpeditiit of sinking woman , and so holdin g a comparative elevatian at aj 8 afe and easy rate . Pitiful was the idea , and wretched hare been the consequences i The same notion is present to the religious ' fanatic who fancies that he raises the Creator by the 'vilest abasement of himself . How little he knows of elevation
who thinks that any crouching Mretch can , even by contrast , in-£ feastva . aother ' s altitude ! -r—to know that there is a coweriug , gro ~ voUsogliteptile is in itself lowering / . 'n Mr . Hervey smiled ; # a people 4 re wont to do at those who foe \ strongly , and . ^ eppre ** tiieniselvea &o . He felt acutely tfee auMfcrie * which iwomeit Urwc . oii tnou , but nev ^ ir . pauaod ito l 4 ok into the causes for these uimctutfc *? ri £ l ^ etUougbVoi re ^ iedy <> r HtoaA 3 k * m wme rmatttoircnprdoi i&Ake haii « ivw , feis bitt ^ l , * fol-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 560, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/60/
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