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    my feeling .: j ( J F ' rhi ^ i ' t ^ etkf ^ k 1 ^ ri ^ w 9 4 fif exaegerailrh ^ . ' ' - ui' M ; . ' " ' — : " . '• ¦ ¦¦! . h ' - - , , ¦ * ¦ [ h ' ifuof ) tan oiiy The sympathy afap £ resia < i < nt is fcwely feX ^ Mitral to a union of affection drr friendship ; but how is this , atiUless tbe / tympatk £ < 3 ) f affinity , to exist between beings so oppositely educated as . itotffc&rtfi

    women ? Were they never destined to meeb-T- ' were ^ eyiWver called on to cor operate fin the business of life ^—same * efccusa &r such a system might be framed ; but when they meicati&& £ f form the most intimate union , to co-operate in the most important duties , it is impossible not to brand the system with the name of insanity . .

    I cannot tell whether my disgust and indignation at the causes , or my distress and humiliatiort at the consequences of this system , are greatest . Alternately they lacerate me as migtit li g htning , and paralyze me with the numbness of despair ; it istfie redeeming glow of hope , flowing from the spread of intelligefuje , the

    extension of ajihera }; philosophy , and the interests awakened in the caijse o ? education , which come upon my heart , and save it ^ om extinction or stagnation . v ' j f < Thit sjbrikrhg differences have existed , and do exist , beWttee ' ri the sexes > I admit ; that they are natural or necessary ,. IVdfeiiV . Variety is dh ^ bf the beautiful laws of nature ; by that law ekc ^ h being ^ iflfers from all other beings—man from man as widely , in a thousand pbints of power and character , as woman from man ,

    or man from woman . These are natural differences / / The geileral differences which attach to sex en masse ate artiivcial differences—as artificial as those of class , having their ciri g ih ^ H similar causes , and flowing into similar consequences . ' Women , like the aristocracy , have a specious elegaiice and an aimless indolence—a love of showy distinction and ati ihdiffe *^ HciB

    to sterling greatness . They are thus the gilt gingerbread 6 f society , —nothing at the feast consisting of' reason afcd ' the ^ flbto of soul / still less , if less there can be , in the hbur W pblWJc'&l famine , when we want wheaten opinions , principles , andactidflte ! "to ; is the fault neither of women nor of the aristocracy that they' ^ kcti are what they are . Justly has it been recently said , b / cUfg ^ f tlj e ablest and honestest of our journalists , * The Lords are WH&I ^ tftett

    institution makes them , and its vices , so long as they iiist , tfftftft produce the same fruits / This applies to the ladit * M Well as the lords . > ' "" »'''

    The most elaborate arrangements , the most persevering '^ nd ^ a-Vours , £ re instituted to create and eotifitnt sexual difFeren e ^^ the indst tortuous circumstances continue thfe dissimilarity , till , rnidei Hety degree ! of mutual defefeptkm , men tind 'uromfcn . meet Iftp ^/ . tti indissoUiql ^ union . The n , as if by magic , with actttce fc thbtyrlit or F ^ elii ^ iit cdmttiqv ; ttey * t& eitpectMW S ( Mkk * & » '^ i ^ thfetic MtrtJlAiWpdtititoi , ' 1 ^ - ^' - ^ " 1 . V ' - ¦ ¦ •¦ ' •'' ¦ ( ' ¦ li * : f ] »"' i ; - i - - iin-jiM u ^ What can be expected from such a course but the consequences

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 601, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/37/