Lekeaka Asong
History 201
Homework #8
March 27, 2016 Judith Sargent Murray was one of the early participants in the fight for woman’s right. She was born in 1751 to a wealthy family that had a large private library which helped shape her literally life. Also, during her upbringing, there was less opportunity for her to receive any formal education apart of reading and writing. While George Washington was the first president of the United States, the Commander-in-chief of the Continental Amy during the America Revolutionary war, and one of the founding fathers of the United States. Judith Murray refer to the “variety of fashions” among women as an argument because she mentions how both males and females have vivid imaginations, but they are different. Therefore, both males and females are both equal just in different ways, styles, and judgment. She asks “will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female’s of the same age”? Murray answers to the question “the charge that offering education opportunities to women will lead to neglect of their domestic duties in the except (on the equality of the sexes) where she acknowledges that, the differences between men and women is how they are raised. She states, “one is taught to aspire, the other is early confined in limited (foner, 293). Murray is in fact raising the age old question of “nature versus nurture.” By treating boys and girls differently. Murray directly addresses the charge of educational opportunities to women by asking
“Is it reasonable that a candidate for immortality…who is to spend an eternity in contemplating the works of Deity, should at present be so degraded, as to be allowed no other ideas, than those which are suggested by the mechanism of a pudding, or the sewing the seams of a garment?” (Foner, 292). Washington warn Americans against “the spirit of