A Visit to Paris in 1814: Being a Review of the Moral, Political ...
A Visit to Paris in 1814: Being a Review of the Moral, Political ...
John Scott
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In this very preference there is an insult ; but there is worse degrada- tion in the employment to which they are put. They are taught to make the most of their in- fluence as women, in prder to gain for themselves and those connected with them, the mercenary ends which arise out of the competitions, hazards, desires, and necessities of daily life. Hie bad effect of this on the delicacy of their minds, re- quires no exposure, and their artificial, active, adroit, and intriguing habits, have, in... fact, given to their physiognomies and manner, an acute, watching, attacking sort erf' air, which, however powerftd it may be in its way, is not the power which most properly belongs to woman, or that most exquisitely becomes her in its exercise. The system o£ educating and training yoimg women in France, is open to the most serious objections. Girls, in respectable life, are placed, as they grow up, under a strict surveillance: they are never entrusted beyond the eye of the "mother or governess.
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