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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
all Vertuous Actions than any Man of what Qualitie soever, Interlarded with Poetry. Per contra, the learned Acidalius published a book in Latin, and afterwards in French, to prove that women are not reasonable creatures. Modern theologians are at worst merely sub-acid, and do not always say so, if they think so. Meanwhile most persons have been content to leave the world to go on its old course, in this matter as in others, and have thus acquiesced in that stern judicial decree, with which Timon of Athens' sums up all his curses upon womankind,--If there sit twelve women at the table, let a dozen of them be-as they are. Ancient or modern, nothing in any of these discussions is so valuable as the fact of the discussion itself. There is no discussion where there is no wrong. Nothing so indicates wrong as this morbid self-inspection. The complaints are a perpetual protest, the defences a perpetual confession. It is too late to ignore the question; and, once opened, it can be se