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stmek mto a path of her owa , making home a chaiv * of di ^ co ^ in which antagonism and antipathy reigned , to tlie utter exGlx ^ a ^^ f sympathy . . . ... ,- > . - / r ^ a v . ¦
Music , drawing , the modern languages , and a . Jong li I s . VAg ? acquirements specified in the school advertisem « iU , t ^ yii ^ iv ^ l ^ recantedhints about , and of some proficiency in tliese ^ a ^ ehe ^ ^ I knowledge they contrived to y ield presumptive e ¥ i $ len « $ . j y « Bdfeo any direct testimony to the fact , that they modestly kept to ^ hegnse&res . ' ¦ • ¦ •• i . ' t- :
TKese young women , when visited or visiting , appeared » i ® ^ e educated to please , a term which in strict truth nieanB to ptaase themselves . Nothing can be more fallacious than the flattery minUteredito men , by the popular notion that the end and aim of woman ' s life is to please man . Women , strictly devoted to this object , who dress , dance , and study all the arts of attraction , are living . concentrations of selfishness : vanity is their appetite , admiration its
aliment ; and so that they can command the eates , they care no jet for the caterers . In fact , the interests of the whole fairomn race sink before the anxiety for the set of a ringlet or the ctflfeet of a ribbon . Admiration is a sort of tax which they arbitrarily impose on men , who , if they cannot pay the tribute in the $ t $ | iifcig coin of truth , are permitted to present it in the counterfeit . £ 0 in of falsehood , rather than not at all ; while these female ta # ? g&theiw » , compelled to share that which they would willingly engross ,- look upon every sister of the sex as infringing on this specious ^ revenue .
Here is an ingenious contrivance for the generation ; of miaehtef and misery ! thronging society with male and female pretenders ,, making believe to be amiable , and making believe to admire amiability I Beauty , grace ,, accomplishments , are but the garniture of the virtues and talents . When the ornamental occupies the place of the essential , hollow and unsatisfactory must be the feast : the literal , like the material , stomach demands something more substantial ; atid thus hypocrisy , dropping the mask of decorum , revels perpetually with the great and petty vices , marking social and
dohiestic life with sin and wretchedness . Hujiian beings ; educated even as they are on the emulative ' : > l ; in 6 ij > lfe , —th £ desire to excel , not the desire of excellence , *—> feel fttl ^ Wvalry regarding the higher attributes of character ; and to these" adVhiration irresistibly flows , not merely from mart to ^ fortikri , but from woman to man . Fine feelings , high aims ; these atelthe ' fofrest t ^ des which shed majesty on the mental and motal path of humanity ; the charms of person , the fascinatkflw of manner Ate ( he undenvocrd , beautiful and deserving ear © And culture * Wttiot tkbt dfegtfeeof culture which leave * the ivae-umber to fatl aria Ite { itortttcie oti the earth , while the para » itttxaliipi ^ rtM fling theif fiiitdkifeHHdatha act-ow ft ; hide it from viWf'a ^ jfcwm * it to decaV .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 644, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/16/
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