All that is truly good and beautiful in society, we owe to woman. Woman must be the motive power of all human progress. If woman, for the past century, had not been shut out from her rightful share of the advantages of education and opportunities for culture, the world would have made more rapid advances. The great mistake of men has been, to leave her behind, and to endeavor to get along with- out her. Such a one-sided advance is impossible.
Humanity becomes a divided body, without a living soul.
The intelligence and refinement of woman, therefore, would secure the education and elevation of man, in the present generation, by the law of sexual attraction, while it would still more secure the improvement of both sexes of the coming generations, by the laws of hereditary descent. Thomas L. Nicholas. We are encouraged and guided by this popular opinion. We intend to go on, sustained and accelerated by this universal encouragement, till our grand aim is accomplished, till female education shall receive the same careful attention and liberal support from public legislation as are bestowed on that of the other sex. Such is the mission of the Lady's Book for 1850.