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we all know what is the value of the originality of untaught geniuses. It means, inventing over again in its rudimentary form something already invented and improved upon hy many successive inventors. When women have had. the preparation which all men now require to he eminently original, it will he time enough to begin judging hy experience of their capacity for originality.
It no doubt often happens that a person, who has not widely and accurately studied the thoughts of others on a subject, has by natural sagacity a happy intuition, which he can suggest, hut cannot prove, which yet when matured may he an important addition to knowledge : but even then, no justice can he done to it until some oilier person, who does possess the previous acquirements, takes it in hand, tests it, gives it a scientific or practical form, and fits it into its place among the existing truths of philosophy or science. Is it supposed that such felicitous thoughts do not occur to women ? They occur hy hundreds to every woman of intellect. But they are mostly lost, for want of a husband or friend who has the other knowledge which can enable him to estimate them properly and bring them before the world.: and even when they are brought before it, they generally appear as his ideas, not their real author's. Who can tell how many of the most
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