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h ^ hf ^ t o ^ do * replied , ' why some I < lo , andr&omeddes ^ f ^ tftelf / Such an id « 3- # ^ such ^ feeiing-of a busine « 9 doiug > of itself iiiAiflt fftfct regarding the education of one-half of the community £ fit is a &ftd of Jiook-and-crook work , and the effects are commenaut * te wiith the fas&iiw * of the proceedings . :. ilv { A boy has some chances of meeting books and people of vaciQUB
information and experience ; even flinging stones is a ettie ^ mstaace in a boy ' s life better calculated to generate ideas than uay circumstance of which I know in a girl ' s : in his path knowledge lies , scattered , and if he has a grain of the gunpowder of iaielleet , it gets ignited ; out of her path knowledge is carefully swept , aad be her intellect what it may , it has little chance of excitetoent or employment .
. One of the effects of female elevation will be improved male education . Mothers now supinely , I may say supremel y * indifferer * t to the corruptions to which they commit their sons in scho Js , whether public or private , so that if in the one they make the acquaintance of a young Lord Henry , if in the other are allowed to devour the plum-cakes with which they pamper them , and leave either , not holding up their heads like men , but turning
out their toes like dancing-masters ; mothers then , with a < epn ~ $ aious and acknowledged right to assist in the regulation ai >< l reform of all that concerns the interests of the great human family , will cry aloud against abuses , and not cease the cry till th ^ ey be abolished ; will propose amendments , and persevere till they be carried ; with a prospective view to the mutual interests and Qaual
advantages of the two great divisions of the human race , instead Qjfi as now , a mere present anxiety for the gratification of iqdi ^ yiduaV vanity and ambition , will minister to the highmindedness of their sons , and keep a watchful eye upon the principles and practices , of the institutions to which their germinating natures are confided .
The sweet and natural recompence of virtue and talent is the estimation and sympathy of the virtuous and talented . To show in its purest , holiest manner this appreciation of the awakening rtterits of the young , to let the sunshine of the heart ' s joy out upon them , is enough . Enough ? it is every thing ; the fulness of satisfaction is perfect , both in those who dispense and those who receive such reward ; no after-effects can follow but such as are
permanently and perfectly beneficial ; it is the moral light ktttd air hi Which the flowers of the mind best put forth theii * Metfaerttir , att * A Mthoot which the future fruit will neither be tielv bor abundant . / . :... \ Harriet Ward permitted one sister to play the eccentric ,
consistin g in efforts to appear singular and a perpetual declaration that she was like no one else in the world ; -another to affect gentucnent and an enthusiastic interest about every tyxly and every thing : both characters pf e ^ ert ^ on , and , as ever jwoawig upon the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 648, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/20/
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