Then again, in geographical location, Africa is the most remarkable in position. Of the five grand divisions of the globe, Africa stands in the centre. This is indicated by the language they always used when speaking of God the Creator, as we understand and adore him. Friendly, sociable and benevolent, they are universally the politest of people. Obscene, profane or blasphemous language is never heard among them, and quarreling and fighting are prohibited by law, and equally unknown.
Men do the coarser and heavier work, and women the finer and lighter.
When the day dawns, The trader takes his money, The spinner takes her spindle, The warrior takes his shield, The weaver takes his batten, The farmer wakes himself and his hoe, The hunter wakes with his fiddle and bow. Here, of six vocations named in the stanza, there is but one the spinner assigned to woman, the identical calling in which none but woman among the most advanced of modern civilized nations are employed. There is not even here any vocation assigned to women at all in the field, as is customary in civilized countries among Christian nations. Such then are the people of the polity of whose prospective civilization we have symbolized these pages, together with that of their progenitors.