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^^ p ^ ^ ^ omn ^ orily follow ? The finest n > ind $ -soonest feel m « pornipfXib }' lity—aTe most conscious of the impossibility , under s ^ qi ^ TarcumstattceS ; of happiness and usefulness , of the inevitability of wretehefLaess and injury;—they break the bond , and are
branded as sinners against society ; but it is society which has sinned against them—which has decreed that they snail be born and bred victims , and then carried to the altars of their country * and offered up as martyrs for life . Oh , where is the angel which in the land of Moriah stayed the sacriBcing hand ?
The days of miracles and miraculous interposition are past ; man is now left to draw wisdom from accumulated experience aiid the deductions of observation ;—when we know that fire will born , and water drown us , prohibitions respecting them are no longer necessary . But the sources of female enslavement must
be laid bare , that men may see and hate them ; enormities exist in society , till , under the sanction of custom and habit , they are not merely endured , they are even adored , —as the child loves the black face of the negro nurse to which it is used , while it will turn from the most angelic face to which it is a stranger .
Would we put an antelope and an ox into the same team ? Would we harness a hare and * a horse to the same carriage ? Yet , let me ask , when is the car of matrimony drawn by a pair more assimilant than these ? What are the consequences to those Ppor innocents ^ seated , per force , in that ill-managed conveyance ? jThey are the sport of weakness and wilfulness ; they are cast at random upon the world maimed and distorted , instead of being formed and fitted for the work of life : —
* The Spartan mother made her son A reckless warrior wight—And an intellectual mother nils Her * on with love and light . A patriot woman never gave The state a recreant child .
And on the great of every land Ennobling mothers smiled . WHh equal truth the weak , the vain , The slave of pelf or power , May plead for pity , and exclaim * / hold my mother * $ dower . She loved the vulgar gauds of life , Pledged honour—ptace— for pelf , And Uught me for the take of thai 2 > * pto pcU muMclf : '
Women , us do soldier * , * s did t ) i $ Jesuits , as , in fact , ever will any despotically drilled body , * a * t hidividualitjr most lamentably . At first th « y ~ a * r ill g ft ^^ sense , gives rjwj * WPW ^ \ ff frM jmtr *»*»*> «** papen / parade , and all that is + ** fwXfMtm f « l specieus .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 602, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/38/
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