, 1855-06-08

till she shall have been qualified too for
the station which she may be destined to
ill.
1t may be, that in every succeeding
phase of our social condition, woman's
sphere is proportioned to woman's merit.
Let us increase the merit of woman then,
and trouble not ourselves about her sphere;
it may be safely left to itself It's prob
lenl-like most Of our social problems
to be worked out, not talked Out, written
out, or thought ont.
Again, it has been wen said, it is one
thing to enlarge a sphere of action, and
another thing to change the sphere
1t is the former not the latter, that
would propose to do. With richer cul.
ture, a deeper consciousness of duty, out
wad acts, visibly the same, are in spirit,
widely different. 1t is the loftiest spirit
that will best "on itself the lowest duties
lay" And so work Of oil kinds will be
better done. when its real significance is
understood and felt, when the agent loses
the oppressive sense of isolation and mu-
tiliiy; and feels himself however humbly,
a fellow-worker with the best and greatest.
Let us, then, be careful that we concede
not too much to habit to changing habit,
in our notions Of woman's sphere
In times not long past, for woman to
write and publish books, was as unfeminine
as, in the minds Of some, it is now, for q
woman to lecture. And even nov, many
ladies, who feel no conjunction at behold
ing or hearing their sister-woman sing at
public concerts, whose nerves it would not
shake to hear her soundly hissed, shrink
from encouraging lady lecturer, no matter
though, like Mrs. Balfour, she utter worthy
thoughts in worthy language, in all good
taste and gentlcness. as
Neither can it be justly said, that I would
remove woman from her domestic duties.
| would merely wish her to discharge them
in q higher spirit, because with deeper
and truer knowledge Of their value. But
there is fallacy here which needs to be
pointed out. a-at q.a ba'-sei li'',aaaal. ussi
We commonly hear coatrasted, mans
literary pursuits on the one hand, and wo-
mans domestic duties iOnithe other, and
we are graveIy told that the latter disquali.
fy woman for the former. ~
But the true contrast is between mans
business occupations, aud womau's domestic
duties; to both, literary pursuits are neu-
trail and an equal ground. If the one dis
qualify woman, the other must not less dis
qualify man; and in truth | believe that in
the great mass of cases, women have much
more time for mental culture than men,
and this fact renders their neglect Of such
studies the more to be deplored. sgr nast.
Ineed say nothing in reply to the sense
less ridicule which dcters many women
from following the dictates of their better
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