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branches of human economy ; instead of being , as they are , intertissued with all human circumstances , and thus deserving * , nay demanding , the vital attention of every rational creature from the dawn of intellect unto its decay . Another most erroneous notion lies at the base of the
assertion I am combating—the notion that political knowledge and political interests are unsuited to the female mind , and incompatible with those attributes of character deemed or desired to be the sole or essential constituents of the female character . That political science has been degraded by the intermixture of virulent passions and feelings is not to be denied ; even
Pitt was reproached with suffering his faculties to he overwhelmed by his passions ; and when the science is thus adulterated it is as unworthy of the wise among men , and as unseemly , as it is among women . But the rapid advance of intelligence , acting upon the innate spirit of English independence , is clearing away the corrupt vapours through which the people used to look at politics ; clear heads and clean
hearts , with only so much fire as is necessary to the warmth , not the heat , of the concomitant passions , is tne prevailing state of the mighty mass now bearing down upon the wretched ranks of the conservatives—and where does the being exist who will say that the clear head and clean heart animated by this tempered warmth shall be forbidden to act because the great Author of all humanity has shrined that head and heart in the frame of woman instead of man ?
Politics , it is said , are incompatible with gentleness , with softness , with general amiability—tush ! Let us not pervert that blessed instrument language — the exclusive music of humanity — given us that truth may be trumpet - tongued and triumphant . Politics are incompatible with inanity , with
indifference , with the show , not the substance , of those principles of which real gentleness , real softness , real amiability , are the effect and effusion . The sun has its rays of gentleness , but where were they but for the in tenser fire from which they spring?—who loves him not in his twilight time when he is gentlest of all ? but where were the fruits , the flowers , the fertile
fields ' mid which they like to luxuriate , did he not also emit burning rays of brightness and of heat ? The moon is , perhaps , the most perfect type of gentleness , and a favorite reference with the namby pamby eulogists of woman—but has not the moon power ? Ask the ocean tides on which nought else has
any . Real gentleness , real softness , affection and amiability , spring from the deep , intense feelings and faculties which are the animating * principles of the patriotism which serves our country , and the high arid holy sentiment which embraces all humanity with love . The gentleness , softness and amiability which
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On Women of no Party . 79
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/15/
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