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and by imbibing mental atmospheres, — which spring as readily to her lips as do the words feeling," "tone," "values," to those of writers on art. Such women analyze life, lay down propositions, premises, and reason from them. Very often their foundation is weak. One of them, whose analysis of the mental requisites for different kinds of labor was very keen, observed: "There are sensuous and super-sensuous classes. The super-sensuous care less about the technique of their work, and fail in execution, but they are capable of improvement, if lofty motives are appealed to, and are ready to encourage stumblers. They long to be all they feel, and their lives are full of striving and failures. The sensuous could be represented by those girls who don't know, and don't know that they don't know; they are honest and virtuous, but their tastes are on a low plane."

The working-women are struggling against the identical limitations within themselves

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