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    76 THE GENERAL EDUCATION OF WOMAN.

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    body matter , and were mind thoug , h too g he , as should it was y . supposed be made , was coarse to be an streng d roug th h ened and hard e ; ,

    to no as be well if as not strong weakened * The , other at least , being kept assumed weak , . to Woman be the weaker , was to , was be

    made feebleness , graceful Independence , and elegant , and of delicate character , and ori winning inality from of thoug her ver ht y ,

    ener hic gy breadth of . purpose and , log depth ical of clearness comprehension , and , scientific or g range accuracy of knowled , philo ge - ,

    sop to even live strong not for bodil herself y health but , — for all him were of out the of other keep sex ing . who "Woman might was be , , not to

    put captivated forth and into improve becoming her a own prop individuality for her graceful , as in itself debility of , — priceless

    value to lease , but to attract wait to and receive charm chance by impress frivolous from accomp without lishments , or at which most

    mig house other p ht hand be is , laid let , who the aside , ticket failing when may to their gain be end taken that was down end gained . waste , — How -just life many as in , when , elegant on the the

    trifling miht appropriatel ; and , who , , if asked wer , " _" Wh Because y stand no ye inan , here hath all hired the day us idle ! " ? It "

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    female powers excellence is at comp best a secondary , , derivative , reflective , moonlike thing . So long as we hold the line philosop of his hy descri which Milton of Adam sums

    in its least offensive formin one ption we up and err Eve and ,- —Hje suffer for because God onl we y , , She err . for We God must in him acknowled , "—so ge long an inde must

    because pendent , self a common -nature in dignity woman in as both in . man , and a common responsibility , have soulswith

    Pope If , we that held to be with characterless the Turks is and , that the aim best women in thing life is for the no woman distaff ; ; or or with with

    Telemachus that woman , that woman ' s true ' office s end is to suckle fools , and chronicle ; or small beer Iago , ; " or with the chivalry of old , that woman is to be flattered

    with the incense of an almost idolatrous worship—a homage degramade ding alike an idol to and the then giver , by and as the slig receiver ht a change ; that in woman fact as is in to sound be first , a

    to doll any awaken ; of in these any tastes , of suppositions these and desires cases , it , there would that would could be vain not be no or be more mischievous gratified to say or . fulfilled to Under strive ;

    the nay , kinds we should of culture have even such to as retrace it is , with our which steps , women and retrench are indul some ged of .

    And sistent here if we lies would the whole , hold gist fast of b the y any question princi . ple If whatever we would , either be con we

    have deny to alread , women y gone the too possession far , or must we of must act our full go common on farther the nature admission ; we , must intellectual that either she , moraland _aestheticor we y

    , ,

    76 The General Education Of Woman.

    76 THE GENERAL EDUCATION OF WOMAN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/4/