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life * men , w # re created to love and to be loved ; to feel wad inspire lore is the most blessed privilege of their mutual existence * It is said that love renders the beloved more beautiful , more
full of moral dignity , to the lover than to any other person * Nothing can be more true ; and it is just as true that the being , if wftiwrmng the love , i& really more beautiful , more dignified ; , for there is an i&ftmm acting upon her or him which quickens aonl and body into brighter , loftier life ; therefore the fancy and the fact go together .
I believe that humanity is best and most beautiful when in love ; that , it would be permanently good and beautiful , could it be kept in love ; and that it is better and more beautiful after lo * e has passed away than it would ever have been without it . But the system of society in general forbids woman to love or to be lovable . The husband ' s house , not his heart , is her question ; how she will look in his house , not how she will act in it , his .
Were all beings educated to be able to provide for themselves , to prefer a frugal self-dependence to pajanpered dependence on others ; were all in thought , word , and deed as free as the nature of humanity admits , then , when the summer-time of love came upon the heart , neither lucre nor licentiousness would profane it : naen and women would marry , not because one wanted a home and another a : housekeeper , but because each required a shrine
and a sanctuary for the superabundant affections flowering in the heart . That even partially operating external influences produce notable effects , is already apparent in the conviction slowly growing oh the general mind for the necessity of female elevation ; it
is placing some women in the ranks of science , many in those of art and literature . I would that I could write * with a pencil of light' the names of Mrs . Somerville and Mrs . Janet Taylor , as especially giving evidence that Minerva now walks the earth without the repulsive armour of pedantry , and does not disdain the distaff because she can use the telescope .
May star after star arise , till every cloud which now obscures the moral world be banished . May the field of mental power be thrown open to the whole human family , imposing no restriction , making no reservations but such as natural incapacity may render necessary ; then leisure , arising from whatever cause , instead of being the waste land of mischief , will be the preserve of taste ,
tdfortt , and usefulness . Bad as is the education of boys , far worse is that of girls , as regards all the means of mental enlargement ; and the question of female education , instead of taking equal part with that of male education , is never even alluded to in any journal or any proceedings devoted to the subject of instruction . A learned barrister , on being asked how he could possibly get through all
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 647, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/19/
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