A very famous man of English letters wrote this-
Quote:I have always admired the wisdom of those by whom our Female Education was instituted, for having contrived, that every Woman of whatever condition should be taught some arts of manufacture, by which the vacuities of recluse and domestic leisure may always be filled up; since the weakness of their sex and the general system of life, exclude them from many employments which by diversifying the circumstances of men, preserve then from being cankered by the rust of their own thoughts. I know not how much of the virtue and happiness of the world may be the consequence of this judicious regulation. Perhaps the most powerful fancy might be unable to figure the confusion and slaughter that would be produced by so many piercing eyes and vivid understandings, turned loose upon mankind, with no other business than to sparkle and intrigue, to perplex and to destroy.
He would know now how to figure it simply by looking around.
The British government have just announced that women are to be made to go to work when their youngest child is 12 rather that at 16 as is the case now.
