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    74 THE GENERAL EDUCATION OF WOMAN.

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    artist , engineer , archit . ect , or print-designer , — , -but to whom beside ? What being , thoug in training h its - stud at once y in to earl quickness y life is and important of accuracy to of every and perception h refined uman ,

    skill of hand , habits of observation , love beauty , purit taste , which of heart always These tend things towards are , if all they as do nothing not always compared produce with ,

    the still mean y luxuries s of that e . arning have bread not necessity and meat for , and their tea p and lea ; sugar so that , or , , after worse a

    few , years of drudging business , of _iininrpeachable respectability , of may the dull scending man propriet be gathered , — gifted leaving y in with the to behind his powers discharge fathers him of , of whose whom children what existence are he under has called he not efficient the has insulted social never pled duties dreamed b ges y tran not , — - ,

    to transcend , him . Horace tells us of a rustic who hesitated whether he decided should to make cut his a god log ;— of we wood reverse into the a decision stool or , and a god of our ; he material at last ,

    stool god-like or thoug other wooden h its capacity utensil trul of y dail is , y we use are . I well shall content not stop to to make point a out the , manifold forms of evil resulting from this too common notion ,

    and the sort of training to which it leads . In the narrowness , and jealousiesand pedantries of professions , we see enough to make us

    , wish It is for for change every . one engaged in education to judge how far this

    p to icture erel lift up thi is his overcharged s degradation voice again . of and If his it again be own not , hi and , it h a is calling thousand for every but times one this , so desecration against engaged not

    of m all y that is best in man , —this sacrifice g of man , ' s noblest nature on the altar of his meanest wants !

    NowI believe that this blindness and confusion still so commonly , prevalent in the training of hoys , is , thoug in h in the another way of , even irls

    more In men activel , the y general and mischi is sacrificed evously to prevalent the special , the training greater to g the . less , the mind and life to the profession . But women , generally

    is of speaking not a kind without , of have training advantage no profession , which in , if ; its it and very be they wanting directness have in not breadth and even definiteness the and of advantage warmth mantua of ,

    case maker aim . of , When boys or artist they the , or needle have governess a or profession the , the brush same , whether or rule the multifarious is it be followed that smattering as in the

    -; , , , which , under the specious name of accomplishments , too often

    conwould stitutes be the a waste governess of time 's stock and _ineatis in trade . to , aim absorbs at mental all attention growth . , at It

    74 The General Education Of Woman.

    74 THE GENERAL EDUCATION OF WOMAN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/2/