Woman's education, and woman's health : chiefly in reply to "Sex in education" / by George F. Comfort and Mrs. Anna Manning Comfort.

  • George Fisk Comfort
Date:
1874
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Credit: Woman's education, and woman's health : chiefly in reply to "Sex in education" / by George F. Comfort and Mrs. Anna Manning Comfort. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    this Quixotic phantom to girls studying in boys' way. After speaking in various places of the tendency of our present system of edu- cation to produce a large number of Agenes, our author at one place lets his pen slip into a cautious style of prophecy, when, in speaking of the change in character which accompanies the development of this new class of human be- ings, he says: In these cases, which are not of frequent occurrence at present, but which may be evolved by our methods of education [!] Dr. C. is altogether wrong. Those women of New England and of America, who have en- joyed the blessings of a liberal education, are as chaste, gentle, and feminine as any women in the world. As a distinguished English edu- cator says : Lovelier and pleasanter people than they don't exist elsewhere among the ra- ces, or in the mother country. Coarseness of features and of manners, unfeminine traits, and masculine looks and actions are not more common among women of liberal education, than among those who lack such education, whether they are rich or poor. If the new race