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    and sailor . Reviewing all this , it will say— Here is evidence of what power , whether physical or political , when uncombined with benevolence , intelligence , and ; knowledge , ever effects ; against such power all who think rationally , or feel kindly , must prosecute a crusade , and England , to say nothing of other countries , shall once again drive the wolves from her woods . '

    How is the spirit-spoiled weaver , the soul-subdued tailorvictims of ill-paid toil , confined rooms and ignorance—looked upon by power ? How is the little fag , feeble an £ 5 defenceless , oppressed and spurned ! How should womanexpect to fare better than these , since the principle of wrong and injury is the same in all cases ?

    Resistance alone makes man respect the rights of his fellowcreatures . He who will consent to dig the pit of his own degradation , may rest secure of being thrust into it . I will ask the men of every people what has been their political experience ? What have they ever got by entreaty from the tender mercy of tyrants ? Let me not be supposed to advocate violence—that is

    only weakness in another form . Antagonists may contend personally till they realize the fate of Curran ' s two Kilkenny cats , ( who fought so desperately that nothing was left of either of them but the tips of their tails , ) and after all what shall be effected ? Immolation , mutilation , prostration , not reformation . It is a good rule in morals , as in mechanics , to apply no more force than

    necessary . True power lies in the brain , not in the body ; that power is coming more and more into action—and its manifestations are conduct and discourse . Logical eloquence and practical purpose are the battering engines of the present period , and nothing , however high , which is hollow , can stand against them .

    What was the theory which man has hitherto adopted as regarded woman ? That her passions were stronger , and her reason weaker than his own . Having assumed these facts , how did he proceed upon them ? Why , to create by education and social arrangements that which he presumed or pretended existed by nature . Having thus doubly doomed his victim , he perfected the arts of seduction and enacted penalties against the

    seducedhis ( as he imagined ) strong , and certainly cultivated , reason , he brought to bear upon her ( as he said ) weak , and assuredly , uncultivated reason , and highly-nurtured passions , ( for ignorance and idleness are first-rate stimulants , ) and when his triumph was thus accomplished , he doomed her to condign punishment—left her no refuge but revolting infamy , or unceasing tears and repentance in obscurity .

    When lovely woman stoops to folly , And finds too late that men betray , What charm can soothe her melancholy , What art can wash her guilt away ?

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    Female Education . 107

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/27/