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    superiority never , for it feels itself as sharing the degradation M every being who departs from the dignity of human nature , a » d it applies itself zealously to raise that natutfe with which it must either rise or fall . - ^ - In a late number of the * Journal of Education it is observed i # Females ( the writer means women ) must -be tau g ht fromthiir Earliest childhood that they will be required to lire fit * tife \ *

    rather than for themselves ; that their best hup ^ uteiwr consists in ministering t < fr the happiness of others . * And are not men ( or maJe * , toarfopt a corresponding phrase * ology ) to be tatigt * tthe % ame ? Universally applied this precept jft * ne tftjffc ^ : ^ feiftially applied it is despicable cant , and like all &&t has this consequence , it produces hypocrisy and imposture . Truth cannot minister at the altars of falsehood , —as tittle can

    women minister pure morality to men undeserving of it . The partial morality which corrupt and selfish power instituted enjoined all the virtues upon women ,, not merely in a state of greater perfectness than they were demanded of man , but it was also expected that those virtues should retain their brightness and purity amid the infected atmosphere of his infamy . Not only was this unscrupulously demanded ,, but the strength and constancy of

    mind—the cultivation of mind necessary in any degree to fulfil such a requisition was denied and refused . The condition of the Israelite , of whom bricks were required , and the straw necessary to make them denied , forms but a poor parallel to this wholesale instance of injustice . I fancy I see the ghost of Pharaoh looking with a ghastly grin of satisfaction upon men , and forgiving all th * obloquy they have heaped upon his name , in consideration of the eminent manner in which they have followed his example .

    When we send an individual to sea , intending lie should ride the ocean and brave the elements ,, do we embark him in a leaky and ill-furnished ship ? Never . But men , it seems , thou g ht that a weak and uncultivated understanding could carry a high morality . When we arrange a scheme of commerce , do we direct it to a plafce in which our commodities are not in demand , or if they be , where there is neither produce nor money for us to receive in exchange ? Never . But men arranged a scheme of morali ty *

    proposing for its object that women should carry purity , prudence , patience , and every other virtue to bosoms insensible of their value ; and at for the return , infidelity , indifference , insoieefc * , negUot , and contempt , to for from fating rejected * w * i » e to to * thtifc failr , at least patfiwiriy , * oaf pted , - ¦< hu ; ; - ; r - > - o '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 687, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/59/