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#I’I-IE SKJUTS-BOY. 93
raost perfect conviction that ber Matilda v¢as a true miracle. I
secretly pitied ber, when I #w ber real talents suppressed in
such a sad way, and round nothing more in ber tha# an unfor-
tunate, m#seduc#ted person, and since that rime, it ha# always
created a bitter and compassionate feeling within me #vhen I
saw mothers, from pure vanity and self-decept#on, destroy their
daughters’ happiness of mind, and totally corrupt them for their
future lives as wives and mo#hers. Girls, #ho without this
searching after a hollow fashionable exterior, would bave become
excellent housekeepers, reasonable mothers, and useful, econo-
mical women, v¢ho in the sphere appointed fo them by nature
#vould h#ve been able fo develop the most useful activity, as
industrious, home-loving, or, in one v¢ord, the most fitting beings
for the duties of the isolated but happy domestic life–they
change their nature all ai once, although daily experience
proves how little such undertakings are rev¢arded, and become
puppets who are moved about on wires, v¢hose soul itself is
nothing more than # mere machine, and all this by no other
m##ns than the education which is forced upon them, and v¢hich
their powers are hot able to digest."
"You judge harshly," said Wir#n.
":No, I am only a friend of truth," replied Ivar, #varmly; "far
be if from my mind to refusa fo young ladies the loveliness and
#miability which a finished educ#tion is able to give them. But
# should desire, before parents introduce their child upon ifs
p#th of future education, they should first prove its talents and
faculties, that they might hot become blind through vanity to
its wm#ts, which would undoubtedly destroy all their endeavours.
In relation fo music, for instance, I can hardly im##ne anything
more pleasing thon the soft metallic voice of a gh’l, united with
the lovely tones which a musical instrument hot only produces,
but which are especi#lly allured from if by the performer’s
expression of soul. ttow disgusting, on the contraxy, is it, when
art bas to perform ber part alone, where nature h#s refused ifs
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