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    THE GENERAL EDUCATION OF WOMAN. 77

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    all and but greet their their presence , still , thoug to their h their very existence knowled be unknown and taste to , ge

    so and to reflection one , then possessor , even so to if thousands , small in , degree to millions possessor , are , the to , all richest ! blessings , . If

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    the who have gone find before , their us solution . Thus elsewhere the ignorance than in and the direct degradation ordinance of

    of Providence poor may , Let us not be hasty to charge on nature what may be the result of man ' s own neglect or folly ; still less to make the

    existence But , to of descend evil an from argument theory against to fact , efforts take the for average its removal declare of men . whether and

    there women is , and anything let any present one who . or has absent tried to in teach the intelli both gence of woman

    which unfits her for the study of any subject of human inquiry , or

    The General Education Of Woman. 77

    THE _GENERAL EDUCATION OF WOMAN . 77

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/5/