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(The following passage is excerpted from an essay by nineteenth-century British writer Mary Ann Evans, who published novels under the pen name George Eliot.)
If, as the world has long agreed, a very great amount of instruction will not make a wise man, still less will a very mediocre amount of instruction make a wise woman. And the most mischievous form of feminine silliness is the literary form, because it tends to confirm the popular prejudice against the more solid education of women.
When men see girls wasting their time in consultations about bonnets and ball dresses, and in giggling or sentimental love-confidences, or middle-aged women mismanaging their children, and solacing themselves with acrid gossip, they can hardly help saying, âFor Heavenâs sake, let girls be better educated; let them have some better objects of thoughtâsome more solid occupations.â But after a few hoursâ conversation with an oracular1 literary woman, or a few hoursâ reading of her books, they are likely enough to say, âAfter all, when a woman gets some knowledge, see what use she makes of it! Her knowledge remains acquisition instead of passing into culture; instead of being subdued into modesty and simplicity by a larger acquaintance with thought and fact, she has a feverish consciousness of her attainments; she keeps a sort of mental pocket-mirror, and is continually looking in it at her own âintellectuality;â she spoils the taste of oneâs muffin by questions of metaphysics; âputs downâ men at a dinner-table with her superior information; and seizes the opportunity of a soirĂ©e2 to catechise3 us on the vital question of the relation between mind and matter. And then, look at her writings! She mistakes vagueness for depth, bombast for eloquence, and affectation for originality; she struts on one page, rolls her eyes on another, grimaces in a third, and is hysterical in a fourth. She may have read many writings of great men, and a few writings of great women; but she is as unable to discern the difference between her own style and theirs as a Yorkshireman is to discern the difference between his own English and a Londonerâs: rhodomontade4 is the native accent of her intellect. Noâthe average nature of women is too shallow and feeble a soil to bear much tillage;5 it is only fit for the very lightest crops.â
It is true that the men who come to such a decision on such very superficial and imperfect observation may not be among the wisest in the world; but we have not now to contest their opinionâwe are only pointing out how it is unconsciously encouraged by many women who have volunteered themselves as representatives of the feminine intellect. We do not believe that a man was ever strengthened in such an opinion by associating with a woman of true culture, whose mind had absorbed her knowledge instead of being absorbed by it. A really cultured woman, like a really cultured man, is all the simpler and the less obtrusive for her knowledge; it has made her see herself and her opinions in something like just proportions; she does not make it a pedestal from which she flatters herself that she commands a complete view of men and things, but makes it a point of observation from which to form a right estimate of herself. She neither spouts poetry nor quotes Cicero6 on slight provocation; not because she thinks that a sacrifice must be made to the prejudices of men, but because that mode of exhibiting her memory and Latinity7 does not present itself to her as edifying or graceful. She does not write books to confound philosophers, perhaps because she is able to write books that delight them. In conversation she is the least formidable of women, because she understands you, without wanting to make you aware that you canât understand her. She does not give you information, which is the raw material of cultureâshe gives you sympathy, which is its subtlest essence.
Which of the follow best describes the authorâs shift in tone as she turns from discussing the example of the âoracular literary womanâ (paragraph 2) to describing the âwoman of true cultureâ (paragraph 3)?
Mocking to earnest: while the author ridicules the oracular woman, she assumes a serious tone when describing the woman of culture.
A
Uncertain to confident: while the author seems unsure about her evaluation of the oracular woman, her tone when describing the woman of culture is assured.
B
Indignant to subdued: while the author expresses anger when describing the oracular woman, she is restrained when describing the woman of culture.
C
Flippant to despondent: the authorâs treatment of the oracular woman is playful; her treatment of the woman of culture reveals a deep sense of discouragement.
D
Neutral to sympathetic: the author neither praises nor blames the oracular woman; by contrast, the author portrays the woman of culture in glowing terms.
E
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