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    riage which is entered into by ft female for the consideration of wealth or station , is at best bat prostitution clothed in the robe * of sanctity . And what is the u $ u&i result ? After a few week * have elapsed , the harapj-mBster is tired of his new toy , and wanders forth to seek fresh excitement , leaving bis victim to her

    own sad thoughts , and the full consciousness that there exist de ~ sirable things , which neither wealth nor station can purchase * Thus abandoned , she is marked out as a prey by the designing * and an insidious lover reaps the harvest of affection , which her master could not purchase with her person . Perchance a

    discovery takes place , and the poor victim becomes one of the Pariahs offered up at the shrine of the Moloch of pseudo-civilization . Or , the treacherous lover , tired and sated like her legitimate master , abandons her , and another , and yet another succeeds , till her heart becomes hardened , and selfish sensuality utterly destroys the remnants of affection . To such a woman are children born .

    and one after another they are consigned to the hands of hirelings for their nutriment , and the first germs of the awakening mental perceptions are warped by the blighting coarseness of those who serve , with the disgusting sycophancy of selfish interest , a race of beings whom they in secret hate , because they are by them treated as animals of an inferior class * The after bringing up is

    of the same nature , the judgment is never trained , the better feelings are never brought forth , the sensual appetites alone are pampered , and the most abhorrent selfishness becomes the distinguishing attribute of the race . Have I overdrawn the picture ? Let the ' hereditary legislators' speak ! Where amongst them shall be found even a single individual on whom peculiar circumstances

    have not operated , where amongst them shall be found a single individual , imbued with the principles of justice , or beneficence , or patriotism ? What is their justice , or what rather is by them substituted for justice , save judicial ferocity towards the poor and ignorant ? What is their beneficence , save the winter dole of soup

    and blankets to those whom their unjust laws have made poor ? And what is their patriotism , save their readiness to oppress other countries for military aggrandizement , even as they have oppressed their own for the sake of plunder ? And what is the fate of the female children , save to run through the misery-giving routine as their mothers have done ? Would all this be , were the mothers

    really educated as useful members of society , were their powers of thinking brought forth , and their reasoning faculties cultivated , so that the qualities of their minds might be more attractive than the beauty of their persons , were they trained to possess resources

    in their own minds , aad were their taste cultivated , 00 that they could yield a harvest of intellectual pleasure to those around them , and more especially to their children ? It was a Cornelia who gave birth to tfre Gracchi ; an Agrippiaa produced oniy a Nero .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/3/