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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Contending for the rights of women, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge, for truth must be common to all, or it will be inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice.
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.
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