She By No
Means Overpraises Her Own Sex, And Openly Declares That Young Women
Will Not Consent To Place Themselves In Fair Competition With Men.
They Will Not Undergo The Labor And Servitude Of Long Study At
Their Trades.
They will not give themselves up to an
apprenticeship.
They will not enter upon their tasks as though
they were to be the tasks of their lives. They may have the same
physical and mental aptitudes for learning a trade as men, but they
have not the same devotion to the pursuit, and will not bind
themselves to it thoroughly as men do. In all which I quite agree
with Mrs. Dall; and the English of it is - that the young women want
to get married.
God forbid that they should not so want. Indeed, God has forbidden
in a very express way that there should be any lack of such a
desire on the part of women. There has of late years arisen a
feeling among masses of the best of our English ladies that this
feminine propensity should be checked. We are told that unmarried
women may be respectable, which we always knew; that they may be
useful, which we also acknowledge - thinking still that, if married,
they would be more useful; and that they may be happy, which we
trust - feeling confident, however, that they might in another
position be more happy. But the question is not only as to the
respectability, usefulness, and happiness of womankind, but as to
that of men also.
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