All these four put together, make up a large class of women, who need some other function beside the domestic. In the middle ages, when the Catholic Church held its iron hand over the world, these women went into the Church. Others voluntarily went thither. The attempt is making anew in England, by some of the most pious people, to revive the scheme. It failed a thousand years ago, and the experiment brought a curse on man.
Human nature cries out against it.
Let us look, and see what women may do here. First, there are Intellectual Pursuits-devotion to science, art, literature, and the like. Well, in the first place, that is not popular. My father said that women had nothing to do with learning. Accordingly, he gave her none, and that explained the counsel.