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    THE REVIEWER REVIEWED. 339

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    [The " National Review," October 1858, A...

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    exp grow lain ? how In astronomy the moon a is few eclipsed perhaps ; but can where you will you find one e , without sun some , or with special t the f ad _^ apparent s a _stages ib motions , who which has of the looke the mi sun d on hty and the results stars heavens , of and themselve the has science some s , idea is have familiar of been the

    obtaine subjects soro d reason of ? inquiry If women , y and ( and not men exclusivel too g ) were y at taug their ht r to eflections look strai in g books ht at , — the if different they studied state less from , what and inquired they are , more their , — attention their minds would would be far be more in a deep very ly aroused would be much and liveland

    we engaged should , the have interest fewer laints of vacuous hours more profound and destitution of y men , - tal cation occupation of irls . It is much just comp at to the be regretted time when that the , for intellect the most is most part , alive the edu and

    scious impressions of its g real the ceases most deep is and to lasting test them ; when and the whole wi mind th freshness , first con and - vigor into the realms powers of , thoug eager hi ht . l * d * # , * presses Something whichif has be been orke done d

    with to reme a d patience y this defect and bv wisdom the worth gher y of the ' colleges idea in , which , they they orig w inated , t will imes prove and the the hi most ghest remarkable possible boon and to valuable the women educational of the middle feature classes of these . "

    , Nothing could be more satisfactory . But , in the course of his remarks on this part of the subject , tlie reviewer has in one particular allowed

    himself , while indulging" his taste for criticism , to be carried beyond the bounds of fairness , and even of good breeding . Offensive

    personal imputations are however so entirely beyond the province of legitimate criticism , that , with all whose opinion is worthy of respect , they

    injure the attacker rather than the attacked . We snail therefore pass over in silence what is to be regretted only for the sake of the

    reviewer himself . The authoress with , whom he breaks his lance , had in her little book quoted a passage from Kant . It is in the following terms : —

    ticular " The . science Examples for drawn women from is that ancient of the history human , which race shew , and the of man influence in par of - their sex on the affairs of the world ; the various conditions to which they

    the have two been sexes reduced as shewn in other b ages and les in forei and gn the countries fluctuations ; the of character taste and of y examp ; p Education leasures— of here Girls is , their p . 13 history . ) and their geograx _^ hy . _" ( Remarks on the

    On this quotation , the authoress makes some comments , in the justice of whichit might be proved from the words of the review ,

    , that the reviewer himself substantially coincides _/* The same little book had recommended the study by young women

    of social" and political economy , on three accounts : —first , that the natural duties of women have much to do with the social relations ,

    with the poor , with schools , with , parochial societies , with , emigrawoman * At page who is 353 enuinel , the reviewer drawn himsel towards f says itself that responsible < f no research alone should and be of denied mature a

    mind /* gy , ,

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    The Reviewer Reviewed. 339

    THE REVIEWER REVIEWED . 339

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/51/