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  [BR]or unceasing tears and [BR]France, who takes the lead in all improvements, however she may follow them up, has made this first move on the political chess-board, and other moves must follow : let only the importance of that greatest of all human interests—female education— be recognised and acted upon, and 1 cheerfully leave the rest to time and woman. But I say to her, on the knees of my heart, if such an expression may be allowed me, be not yourself supine. The moral sun, now rising with stronger and stronger light, day by day, upon the world, is penetrating the dark places, and making the very spiders of prejudice ashamed of their sullen work. The intelligence which exposes the abuse of power in one department will search it out in others;—the moral courage which Coach Factory Store rises in behalf of an oppressed people, will take cognizance of the cause of degraded and insulted woman, of the suffering stultified schoolboy, of the back-branded, spirit-broken soldier and sailor. Reviewing all this, it will say—' Here is evidence of what power, whether physical or political, when uncombined with benevolence, intelligence, and knowledge, ever effects; against tuck power all who think rationally, or feel kindly, must prosecute a crusade, and England, to say nothing of other countries, shall once again drive the wolves from her woods.'How is the spirit-spoiled weaver, the soul-subdued tailor— victims of ill-paid toil, confined rooms, and ignorance—looked upon by power? How is the little fag, feeble and defenceless, oppressed and spurned! How should woman expect Coach Outlet Online to fare better than these, since the principle of wrong and injury is the same in all cases ?Resistance alone makes man respect the rights of his fellowcreatures. He who will consent to dig the pit of his own degradation may rest secure of being thrust into it. I will ask the men of every people what has been their political experience ? What have they ever got by entreaty from the tender mercy of tyrants ? Let me not be supposed to advocate violence—that is only weakness in another form. Antagonists may contend personally till they realize the fate of Curran's two Kilkenny cats, (who fought so desperately that nothing was left of cither of them but the tips Coach Factory Outlet of their tails,) and after all what shall be effected ? Immolation, mutilation, prostration, not reformation. It is a good rule in morals, as in mechanics, to apply no more force than is necessary.True power lies in the brain, not in the body; that power is coming more and more into action—and its manifestations are conduct and discourse. Logical eloquence and practical purpose are the battering engines of the present period, and nothing, however high, which is hollow, can stand against them.What was the theory which man has hitherto adopted as regarded woman? That her passions were stronger, and her reason weaker than his own. Having assumed these facts, how did he proceed upon them ? Why, to create by education and social arrangements that which he presumed or pretended existed by nature. Having thus doubly doomed his victim, he perfected the arts of seduction and enacted penalties against the seduced— his (as he imagined) strong, and certainly cultivated, reason, he brought to bear upon her (as he said) weak, and assuredly, uncultivated reason, and highly-nurtured passions, (for ignorance and idleness are first-rate stimulants,) and when his triumph was thus accomplished, he doomed her to condign punishment—left her no refuge but revolting infamy, or unceasing tears and repentance in obscurity.' When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to coverAnd hide her shame from every eye ;To give repentance to her lover And wring his bosom—is to die.' And how many have thus died! Worse—how many have lived a living-death in scorn and infamy, spoiled, perforce, of all that is beautiful in woman; compelled to be all that is base in human nature!