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    396 THE INFLUENCE OW CLASSICAI, LITERATU...

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    meat of all tlie faculties which _"belong to them as sueli . So as ' respects his daughters , he has nothing to do with the injustice of law ,

    nor as human the absurdities being's , to of seek societ for y . them His ,, and duty with is plain them difficulties , to , all train just of them life know and up

    led societ ge . y , the Who strong among - minded men contend or the best weak with , the the wise or the foolish ? "Who best control and mould opposing circumstancesthe educated or

    , the ignorant ? What is true of them is true of women also . " In the customs of nations women find the most discouraging _edu- _^

    _cational influences . While with us these customs all set one way _^ on they the are forc easil e of y th broken eir primal throug instincts h by the . untutored When Captain races who Walli still s went rely

    to see the Queen of Otaheite , a marsh which crossed the way proved a formidable obstacle to the puny Anglo-Saxon . No sooner did the

    she queen threw perceive him over it , than her shoulder taking him and strode up as along if he . were Nobod a meal y smiled -bag " , ,

    even Captain Wallis does not appear to have felt mortified . These people were accustomed to the physical strength of their queen . h at It

    would be well if civilised nations could imitate them , far enoug least to remember that wherever strength , whether mental or physicalis foundthere it certainlbelongs .

    If , women , were unwise man y agers of money , a statement frequently made , but which we may safely deny , it would be owing to the

    cusis tom " their a p which hrase master which has ; " throug a expresses custom h long so man old ages ' s that pecuniary put to the ' husband purse responsibility 6 " in one the 's resources hands , and time of is

    always equivalent to locking one's money up . ' It will be enough , " says Mrs . Kirkland , " to expect from woman a just economy sources when : witness she is permitted those proud to distribute subscription a portion lists -where of the one famil reads y re- ,

    ten Mr . dollars B . twent Mrs y dollars . B . never , and saw , just , and below would , Mrs ask . B for . ten in vain dollars to ; distri which

    _bute And for this her custom own pleasure has such . " educational forcethat liberal men very

    , a ? efuse the smallest pecuniary independence to their wives to their very care than dying the day Christian . " The his Turk strong does box not . lock To up that his lock wife there with is mora ever .

    but one key , and that the master carries in his pocket . The case is not altered when the wife is about to close her weary eyes in death .

    property She may have but earned without or his inherited consent the she greater cannot part bequeath of their a common dollar . "

    It is the , long customs of mankind which stand in the way of educating women to trades and professions . These matters are mainly

    in woman's own hands . One is glad to see in the English parliament certain statements made in this connectionand others also in .

    , a London pamphlet on the nature of municipal government . In reply

    cati to the _ons common because they argument would that ultimatel women y find ought the _mselves to ent incompete er certain nt , itv -

    396 The Influence Ow Classicai, Literatu...

    396 THE _INFLUENCE OW CLASSICAI _, LITERATURE _^

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/36/