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    prettily , and haa red shoes or blue ribbons to attract notice ; the real , bat concealed object being to promote her eelf-mtereftt * This object being kept constantly out of view , is by some female , natures lost sight or . Habit teaches them to live , enjoy , act ,

    think , hope , fear , only through others ; never in and by themselves . One of the fundamental principles of human nature , the selfish principle , is in women , Forced down . They have no independent exercise of either the senses or the intellect . Hence they become lame , mutilated beings , unable to provide

    for their own happiness . The sympathetic part of their nature only , is cultivated ; and they are rendered utterly dependent on others . They are not imbued with the true principle , by whiek disinterestedness is secured as an integral part of our constitution ; not dependent in the enlarged sense in which we must all be dependent , men and women alike , each on the other for our best enjoyments ; but they are varnished over with an affectation of self-sacrifice , —though self-sacrifice is

    frequently real and voluntary , even towards the most unworthy objec t * , —and they are possessed by a weakness which makes them throw away their individuality , and the very privileges and powers of humanity . It is impossible to annihilate the selfish principle . No one has or ever can in reality cease to desire his own happiness . 44 Why even those that starve in voluntary want * , Ana , to advance the mind , keep the flesh poor ,

    The world enjoying them , they not the world , Would they do this , but that they are proud to seek A sweetness from such sourness . " * When a weak , ignorant , dependent woman throws away her own means of happiness , when she sits down unresistingly , but not uncomplainingly » —to suffer , is it that she is an anomaly in nature ?—that she did not desire happiness ? No she did desire it , but she thought she could have more if another achieved it

    for her . The principle on which the education of the boy is conducted is wholly different . The instrument by which he is to work his way in the world is selfishness , in opposition to the feminine self-sacrificing virtues . The senses ana the intellect are cultivated to the neglect of the affection and sympathies , and in a mode most strongly adapted to crush them : and as the youth advances towards manhood , and as the passions strengthen ., lie

    goes on in a course of unrestrained indulgence , fatal to the true enjoyment of some of the best sources of human happing throughout Ins life , since his associations must be desecrated igr * y « r . Thus , both in men and women the balanea U destroyed , and happiness is lost , as it must be lost wliea uatur * is counteracted and distorted .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/35/