New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-10
BIiKGAEET FULLER.


ecei: elaborate attack IN the Column, q IT,.
\. y Tines, on the American Associstioaists, eel >
ing by ali manner Of trek and inueudo to identify
them with he Free Love ysgsries nov curreat, in
duaed in NJ 81 malignant and Ut justifabe attack on
the fame OF N ARGARET FULLER OssoLI, whom il d.
ecty charged with hostility 10 Indissolube Marriage
We are glad 10 oppose to this uugenerous assault on
the dead The following Just and spprecative notice
of The Lew edition Of" Woman in the Nineteenth Cen
fury, from that eminent conservative oracle, TIE
North american Rer5er. Itfays:
No true word on the themes treated Of in this vol
ume can fail 10 awaken deep interest. IL comes 10
every home with its voice OF counsel, perhaps OF
warning. The treatise which occupies the first half
Of the volume whose title is given above, pub
lsbed by Margaret Fuller shortly before her depart
for Europe, and at that time widely read aud
much valued by thoughtful persons, many of whom
did rot agree with is solution of obe Of the great
problems ofthe ese but sympaihized with its noble and
pune spirit and admired its unmstakable genius. The
rst edIioD, we learn, was sooa exhausted, but the
authors absence fiom the county prevented another
edition al that time, and her tragica death by ship
wreck which is so well remembered by the public,
stl further postponed republication. We are now
Indebted to Der Brother the Rev. Arthur B. Fuller for
a edition, carefully pre- JARED and enriched BY pa
pers previously uDpub ished on the same general
theme. Every page is loaded, We had almost said
overloaded with thought, and the subject is which
her best powers and warDoet sympahies, and cannot
fail to INSTRUCT and interest the reader even when
there is lot perfect agreement with TIE views advanced
There was much in the social position Of Margaret
Fuller to qualify her to speak wisely on this subject
Her Memoirs slog her to have been surrounded by
very large circle of iemhle friends married and un-
married, with whom she occupied he most confden
tsl relations. She had, too, quick sympathy and
generous heart, which made her feel as her own the
experience of Others.
: The general aim of the book is TO elevate the
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point out the means by with these may be promo ed
aoa their obstacles removed While the writer clearly
dsDe uishes the diversity of the sphere and character
siCs Of woman om those OF the other sex, she would
oreI for her every mode of activity for which che finds
herself adapted, widening much her present range OF
ayocatioIs. Tie gross and selfish sentiment seldom
avowed in theory, but too often exhibited in practice
n At If made solely for the advantage and
vice of man. is Indignantly and justly rebuked and
woman is exbo hed TO live frst for God,
berng hest TO nc an immortal spirit, travelling wi b
man ON the same pilgrimage 10 eternity and preparing
for that state where they neither marry are given
in marriage but are as the angels. The marriage
relation, like every other is one of those positions
which, TO be filed wortlhy, requires one 10 be ever
noble and holy and should never be lightly viewed;
but its duties lOt all that requires the earnest
tiyity of woman, these be fulfilled without
culture of both mind and heart. Viewing marriage
and the relation of mother growing out of 1t as OF the
most sacred quence, the writer imp eases us with
the inheritance OF preparing for and fulfilling these
relations with the most elevated motives. And here
she fpds enough to reprehend ia the general customs
of socety. Parents are too apt 20 shape the whole
education of the daughter as 10 make her attractive
10 the other SEX this by the conterment of snowy
and superficial accomplishments as if il were the
last of all msfortunes for female TO fail OF being mar
ri. d. and if her fate after that event were OF ci-
paratve insigDifcance.
I" htrever society Ii up ust 70 woman the auth0. Is
eloquent in her indignation. She severely deals with
that social unfancss which makes of woman, as soon
as she falls. hopeless ou'cast, beyond the pale OF
sympathy or reformation, while the serpent who has
been her ruin Hospitality received and permitted the
opportunity to co OF the work OF destruction, ana
even 10 make bis boast of the evil he has done. At
the same time she attributes this state of things to the
want of proper public opinion among wofsen, who
ought to mako the seducer aware that he Is faleA
with his victim and 10 exclude him, less than her,
from responsibility.
1.-THE views the writer are illustrated by many shin
ing examples from both ient and modern times, OF
true women. The author, wpe acknowledging the
sphere of woman not to be identical with that OF man,
does not yield TO the common notion that womsn
hout equal intellect, that ii is improper to cu
tiva,e il. she holds that woman has mod as noble
as that of man. and is entitled 10 every fair oppord
nj TO store with useful knowledge, aud to develop
il in q legitimate exercise of its powers. In short, wo
man is, in her view, soul preparing for eternity, and
while on earth her position should be 80 noble, aud
the employ meut Of all her pc definite and ear
nest "a to Ill forth what Is highest Ia her nature aud
T. fit her for sphere yet wider ana mob or in eternlty
1.-THE Kindred Papers" which the editor has judi
cously so cted, and which occupy some two hundred
gas Of this interesting volume, afford not merely
varied and enlarged expression Of intellectual endo"
ent and culture but exhibiting as they 90 the author
herself as daughter and sister, then as wife aud
mother and in all other relations faithful and true
woman furnish valuable illustration of her prn'-
PIES and give additional interest to wha' she has