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of knowledge has not been invested
with full authority to admit her be-
You'd lis threshold, and she has lin
gered in the outer courts, while only
the football of the harder portion of
our race has been heard within its
more secluded recesses. ] say not
this. however, in disparagement of
the position which woman at present
occupies in society. l do not con-
tend that she should be thrown from
her present sphere. would not see
her form in the camp, nor hear her
voice ut the bar, nor in the pulpit
Nor do | desire that she should be
led forth to act an equal part in the
political and commercial scenes of
life. | would not obhterate the line
that separates the duties and privi-
leges Of the sexes. | only desire
that it should be known and clearly
defined-that the sphere of her USE
fulness should be enlarged to its prop
er dimensions, and that she should
be permitted to enjoy all the adyan
tages which God and nature stamp as
her own. And when this is done we
shall see her walk forth the angel Of
light, with blessings in her hand and
wisdom on her tongue. Her In
fluence, like the peryading presence
of guardian power, will be felt in
every department of society. The
institutions of the age will bear the
signature Of her hanas-the mind
that superintends the wheels of gov.
ernment will be mouldered by her
care; and the pillars that support the
liberties of mankind will be polished
by her skill. Her mime will be writ
ten in the archives Of the world s
glory, aspirations of usefulness "will
leap like angels, from Il he temple Of
her heart" and the orbit along which
she moves, hitherto darkened by
clouds, will brighten like the track OF
q seraph. The spheres that roll
through the outermost boundaries OF
the system ip which she shines, will
, be irradiated by her splendors; and
the regularity and harmony of their
movements will fall within the range
Of her influence. An accomplished
woman may WELD an influence in So
ciety which no other Can. The de-
sign Of education is to ennoble the
mind; to regulate the passions; to pu-
rily the heart, and to ele Vate the az
feciions. 1t is the art Of raising
weakness into strength, ignorance in
to wisdom, aud infancy into maturi-
ity Ii is the philosophy Of the b.
man mind practically applied to the
development Of all its powers, and
then to the taxing OF the strength
and skill of those powers, in the de-
struction Of vice aud the cultivation
of virtue. 1t is the instrument OF
raising a race little lower than the
angels, into a more entire assimila-
ton with heavenly and seraphic ma
lures. Happiness is its intimate
object, and there will be no period in
the whole duration Of woman's ex-
istence when her happiness will not
be affected by it. Its influence will
be carried through all the diver
sified conditions of her being. 1t
will preside at the formation Of eve
ry purpose; every desire and impulse
will, mole or less, be directed by it.
1t will reign and operate through all
the secrecies of her soul; every act Of
the mind and movement of the body
will receive its coloring from it. The
intellectual and moral powers, ia all
their hidden and fgurative opera
tons, will be brought under the reign
of its government; at no period of
her existence will this influence ADAM
don her; it will be with her in the
vale of adversely, upon the noun
tain of prosperity, in the bloom of
youth, and the frosts Of age, and
upon her dying pillow; ii will go with
her to her destiny beyond The tomb,
and will become, If may SO speak, a
part of her immortality itself, un-
folding a nd frightening amid the glo-
ries of heaven, or darkening and cor
roding amid the shades of perdition.
The voice of nature and Of God
declare that woman should be educa.
ted. But that system Of instruction
which is designed to have no bearing
upon the eternal destiny of those
who embrace it, must surely be de-
fectiye. Woman, as well as man, is
a moral agent. She has work to
perform; difficulties will beset her;
her path will be darkened by the
tempest; mountains will rise and
CULTS will yawn before her; she must
know herself. She must be taught
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