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Then they atfe all ladies ; and now , q uirfk is if tyW&H' M * b' h&t bf * # a with tite , l ' sete d ^ wing-fobtM knd decorations ; Viftityf £ ttd inanity , littleness and li g htness , manoeuvring and matting : 7 t » £ h they are all mothers—petting , perverting-, 6 t nej ^ &ti ^ thefc * offspring " . And all these beings might be—were designed to bfc * - ^ women- —each instinct with the spark of individual power derived from the Deity , and capable of the agency due to the universe . The beauty which women prize so much , do they apprehend
it will be perilled by their coming from behind the curtain of conservative luxury , and quitting the degrading service of anitnalism—by meeting the broad disk of the sun of universal light , by serving at the altars of universal good ? In truth they are mistaken . The finest transparency is nothing wlthbut a light behind it—the lamp may have form , but without light it has no lustre ; in like manner , where there is no soul there is no beauty
—where soul is , beauty there must be ; it is the ethereal spoilt of celestial and eternal fire which permeates the human clay , making it transparant with light and love , and transmitted ^ them . And power- —do men fear that they will lose the whip-hand when wbmen quit the harness of their present pernicious habits ? First let them see whether they have the whip-hand , and , hatririg it , what it is worth .
The avarice of power is ever ill served by the ignorant and sedretivfe : ft is thus that the blaze of ambition has s 6 often gone out in its own fetid smoke , and conquerors , who lived amid corruption , lie at last covered by contempt , or the pity which is akin to it . It is intelligence which renders homage to intelligence ; as the astronomer ' s discerning eye knows the stars in their magnitude ,
so do the intelligent perceive where and what is power . True power has no need to enforce itself— -true power never does . Right onward lies its way , turning neither to the right nor to the left to court favour or follower . When intelligence meets and recognises this power , it is light meeting lig ht , —the worshipped and the worshipping btend their beams , just as we may
imagine some heavenward angels returning from a mission to this earth might combine their energies to cleave the cloud , baffle the wind , ana meet the sun ; the stronger spirit yielding gupport , the weaker feeling support , neither conscious of the cold , clumsy , vulgar , earth y moods of command and obedience , sway and submission , condescension atid deference .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 603, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/39/
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