Word: essays
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...essay on the "Influence and Education of Woman" is especially interesting at present. At the time of its publication he had much stronger public prejudice to combat than exists now. In speaking of the influence of woman, he says: "We do not wish to increase that influence, but to direct it to loftier and more salutary purposes." This, it seems to me, is the true spirit in which to undertake reform in woman's condition...
VERY instructive is the second number of Volume II. of the Vassar Miscellany. We scarcely know which article is the more racy and readable, - the political essay on "The Tendency to Centralization of the Government of the United States," or the moral reflections "About Jonahs." Our inability to understand the latter is only a slight drawback to our enjoyment of it, and is more than compensated when we consider how wise she who wrote it must have been...