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Childe Roland (search for this): chapter 46
the whole relation between the white race on this continent and the aborigines is being influenced by the fact that Helen Jackson wrote A century of Dishonor and Ramona. We cannot, if we would, keep woman's hand off the helm, since even the Greek orator Demosthenes confessed that measures which the statesman had meditated for a year might be overturned in a day by a woman. But it is for us to decide whether this power shall be exercised by an enlightened mind or an unenlightened one-by Madame Roland or Theroigne de Mericourt. Finally, let us meet the objection on its most familiar ground, and assume that all the main work of the world is to be done by men. Who are to bear or rear those men? Women. In every land that missionaries visit it is found, first or last, to be quite useless to educate only the men. Take men of any race at the time when they pass out of the care of women, and you take them too late. Their characters are already formed, and have been formed mainly by the
Margaret Fuller (search for this): chapter 46
XLVI. the fear of its being wasted. It is a curious whim this, which returns every now and then, that the higher education of women should be discouraged because in case of marriage it will all be wasted. It is one of the bugbears which Mary Wollstonecraft thought she had demolished, and Margaret Fuller after her; but it bears a great deal of killing. Those who still bring it up show how little importance they really attack to those functions of marriage and parentage about which they are continually talking. If they really rated these duties so high, they would see that no amount of intellectual development could be wasted in preparing for them. The statistics of about seven hundred collegiate alumnae, as tabulated by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, showed that about a quarter of the number were already married; and as their average age was then but twenty-eight, it could be well assumed that the percentage of wedlock would yet be largely increased. There is not
Mary Wollstonecraft (search for this): chapter 46
XLVI. the fear of its being wasted. It is a curious whim this, which returns every now and then, that the higher education of women should be discouraged because in case of marriage it will all be wasted. It is one of the bugbears which Mary Wollstonecraft thought she had demolished, and Margaret Fuller after her; but it bears a great deal of killing. Those who still bring it up show how little importance they really attack to those functions of marriage and parentage about which they are continually talking. If they really rated these duties so high, they would see that no amount of intellectual development could be wasted in preparing for them. The statistics of about seven hundred collegiate alumnae, as tabulated by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, showed that about a quarter of the number were already married; and as their average age was then but twenty-eight, it could be well assumed that the percentage of wedlock would yet be largely increased. There is not
M. J. Emerson (search for this): chapter 46
or two after leaving college, when the door of success or employment seems as if it were locked on the wrong side. A few years will, however, teach them that a well-trained brain is a good preparation for any conceivable pursuit, and that a well-stored mind is one of the very greatest blessings, whether a man is suffering under the chagrin of failure or the ennui of success. So, many a woman, it may be, has for a moment distrusted the value of her own training, when she found herself, in Emerson's words, Servant to a wooden cradle, Living in a baby's life; or in days when all her mathematics must be brought down to the arithmetic of teething, and all her music must be laid aside to attend to the musical instrument of sweeter tone that says, Mother. No doubt the function of motherhood takes a dozen absorbing years out of many a young woman's life. All the better for her, then, if she has gained the material for intellectual activity before that day comes. If an army is about
Harriet Beecher Stowe (search for this): chapter 46
changes of the last thirty years, placing upon women so much of the practical organization of philanthropies and the guidance of society, have gone hand-in-hand with the higher education. The Sanitary Commission and the Women's Christian Temperance Union are striking instances of this organized development. The Society of Collegiate Alumnae promises a vast deal further in the same direction. The whole course of later American history has been perceptibly affected by the fact that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's cabin ; the whole relation between the white race on this continent and the aborigines is being influenced by the fact that Helen Jackson wrote A century of Dishonor and Ramona. We cannot, if we would, keep woman's hand off the helm, since even the Greek orator Demosthenes confessed that measures which the statesman had meditated for a year might be overturned in a day by a woman. But it is for us to decide whether this power shall be exercised by an enlightened m
Helen Jackson (search for this): chapter 46
with the higher education. The Sanitary Commission and the Women's Christian Temperance Union are striking instances of this organized development. The Society of Collegiate Alumnae promises a vast deal further in the same direction. The whole course of later American history has been perceptibly affected by the fact that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's cabin ; the whole relation between the white race on this continent and the aborigines is being influenced by the fact that Helen Jackson wrote A century of Dishonor and Ramona. We cannot, if we would, keep woman's hand off the helm, since even the Greek orator Demosthenes confessed that measures which the statesman had meditated for a year might be overturned in a day by a woman. But it is for us to decide whether this power shall be exercised by an enlightened mind or an unenlightened one-by Madame Roland or Theroigne de Mericourt. Finally, let us meet the objection on its most familiar ground, and assume that all t
Demosthenes (search for this): chapter 46
evelopment. The Society of Collegiate Alumnae promises a vast deal further in the same direction. The whole course of later American history has been perceptibly affected by the fact that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's cabin ; the whole relation between the white race on this continent and the aborigines is being influenced by the fact that Helen Jackson wrote A century of Dishonor and Ramona. We cannot, if we would, keep woman's hand off the helm, since even the Greek orator Demosthenes confessed that measures which the statesman had meditated for a year might be overturned in a day by a woman. But it is for us to decide whether this power shall be exercised by an enlightened mind or an unenlightened one-by Madame Roland or Theroigne de Mericourt. Finally, let us meet the objection on its most familiar ground, and assume that all the main work of the world is to be done by men. Who are to bear or rear those men? Women. In every land that missionaries visit it is fou
Theroigne Mericourt (search for this): chapter 46
tween the white race on this continent and the aborigines is being influenced by the fact that Helen Jackson wrote A century of Dishonor and Ramona. We cannot, if we would, keep woman's hand off the helm, since even the Greek orator Demosthenes confessed that measures which the statesman had meditated for a year might be overturned in a day by a woman. But it is for us to decide whether this power shall be exercised by an enlightened mind or an unenlightened one-by Madame Roland or Theroigne de Mericourt. Finally, let us meet the objection on its most familiar ground, and assume that all the main work of the world is to be done by men. Who are to bear or rear those men? Women. In every land that missionaries visit it is found, first or last, to be quite useless to educate only the men. Take men of any race at the time when they pass out of the care of women, and you take them too late. Their characters are already formed, and have been formed mainly by the other sex. Hence every