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    336 THE REVIEWER REVIEWED,

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    XLVIL—THE REVIEWER REVIEWED.—No. 2.

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    [The " National Review," October 1858, A...

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    Are Men Natttbaliiy Cleverer Than Women?

    former , though , originally their abilities may have been equal . We need not therefore believe that the present intellectual inferiority of

    women arises from any natural cause while there are so many artificial ones to account for it .

    Let us not despair , but set to work with hearty good-will to break down whatever impediments to the mental improvement of women

    it may be in our power to remove , while we endeavor to train from the rising generation a body of reasoningthinking , practical

    women who will be ready to take advantage , of every favorable opening , and before whom those barriers of prejudice may disappear

    which hitherto have proved insurmountable .

    336 The Reviewer Reviewed,

    336 THE REVIEWER REVIEWED ,

    Xlvil—The Reviewer Reviewed.—No. 2.

    XLVIL—THE REVIEWER REVIEWED . —No . 2 . . - _^ - —

    [The " National Review," October 1858, A...

    [ The " National Review , " October 1858 , Art . IV . — Woman . ]'

    The October number of the " National Review" devotes an article to the subject of " Woman ; " but although the first question one

    asks is whether the reviewer be for us or against us , the reply is far from . His professed leaning appears to be in opposition to

    the movement easy on behalf of womenbut even of that we are not precisely certain . This however we , can say , that throughout the

    article , the reviewer , in spite of himself , concedes our whole case , and concedes it almost in the language of its advocates—language

    which seems to have impressed itself deeply upon him . We do not mean that a few short and scattered passages might be culled in

    which words admit of being strained to a sense different to the author ' s intention ; on the contrary , fully-more than one half of

    the contribution might appear as an energetic and truthful exposition of the cause we plead . Nothing in the progress of a

    controversy a combatant indicates driven better to on plead which the side cause the of scale his opponent is turning as , than a condition to see

    on which he himself may obtain a hearing , —and plead it too so well , that little is left bway of replyexcept to repeat his very words .

    The article treats y successively , of the relative powers , education , economical position , and political rights of the sexes ,- —taking

    severally as text-books Mr . Buckle's essay in " Eraser ' s Magazine , " Miss Parkes' pamphlet on the " Education of Girls , " the "

    Englishwoman's Journal , " the work published by Chapman and Hall on the " Industrial Position of Women" and the pamphlet by " Justitia "

    on the " Elective Franchise . " On , each of these branches of the _subihan

    ject , the concessions of the reviewer are of far greater import _^

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/48/