und her own table,
and is as exquisite a housekeeper, as she is wise and
accomplished as a student. It included also Harriet Martineau,
that woman who, perhaps more than any other person in this age,
had contributed to place the last half century in Europe in a
clear light, by her admirable History, and shown in her treatise
on Political Economy, a grasp and clearness which few men attain.
It included also the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, that
woman of rarest genius, of whom her husband, himself the greatest
of England's living poets, had said that his wife's heart, which
few knew, was greater than her intellect, which everybody knew; a
woman whose inspiration had drawn from that husband, in the
closing poem of his latest volume, the very highest strain which
modern English poetry had struck, and the noblest utterance of
emotion that ever man produced toward woman, in the speaker's
judgment, since the world began. It also included Mary Howitt,
whose beautiful union with her husband is a proof of what true
marriage will be, when man and woman are equals, and whose genius
had brought forth the wonderful powers of another woman whom we
may fearlessly claim as a co-laborer, Frederica Bremer. These
were the women of England to whom the resolution referred; women
who had taken the first step in that movement, of which the full
enfranchisement of woman will be the last.

He could not quite accept the opinion by Mrs. Jones in her
admirable essay in regard to the superior education of the women
of England. The women of England, as he took it, did not equal
the women of America in their average education, although they
did surpass them in that physical vigor of constitution which, in
the end, gave greater power of action and thought. Whilst the
English woman was, by the necessity of the case, taught more of
the modern languages, she was not so commonly taught either the
ancient languages or the mathematics, and had not, therefore, the
same amount of mental training. In England, too, this Woman's
Rights movement was met by more serious obstacles. It had to
encounter all the thunders of _The Thunderer_--all the terrors of
_The Times_--whilst here it had to undergo the very diluted
thunders of _The Times the Little_. A recent traveler has
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