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s6Akspears's Women and Gesrxe Eiiot'a
Aeroinss.
One argument for the "hieher educa-
ton Of women, is that it makes them
ftter companions for highly educated
men. This view should b. looked at in
the light Of the ideal women that have
been created in literature by men and
women Of genins. Ifgenius has the in.
stinct to discover the highest qualities,
and to portray them Tor our INSTRUCT
ions. We should get guidance here
Women have been painted BY our poets,
dramatists and creative writer's Of 6ctiop.i
BY the thousands Many persons would
accept the ldeals thus sketched for;
them as . surer guide than the labored
deductions Of the scientists. Men OF
genius ought to have known the
kind Of women whose compslionahip,
they liked, aud whose influence ;on, them,
was best. While they have had to create
every kind OF woman 10 peopling the
ideal worlds they have made for %, it is
certainly very remarkable that the ideal
type OF the very highly Book educated
woman Of the modern edncationalist. il
scarceiy met with at all. In .Tte
Princess, i" Of our poet-laureate, the fancy
cannot be said to be serious or imltabie
one. Though the sentiment Of the sweet
girl graduates with their golden hair il
this:
".Oh! lift your naturea MP,
Embrace our aims; work out yoar freedom,
knowledee is nov no more . fountain sealed.
DRINK deep 1ntil the hAbits Of ,the slave,
::. g. s SssssE sop sds and R'e
Than not be noble
yet the poet paints the sweetness 90 a.
altogether to overpower the learnedness
in the picture. and the princess ideal
and purpose come to naught. Aud Lady
Psyche's dream of likeness and equality
is - faras ever from being realized:
Two head. in council. tsc Sssids .h. hearth
Two in tho tangled business Of the world.
Two in the liberal Of6ces Of life.
Two plummets dropped for one to sound the
Of science and the secrets Of mind.
snd
Should bear double growth of those rare
Poet. 9s xhS;. !! thought. enrich the blood of the
Shakspeare's women are certainly not
of the learned sort. Their yesrs OF
adolescence were not taken up in getting
book knowledge exclusively. Their
emotional nature was not dried up by the
strain of intellectual work in youth.
Their constitutions we're not spoiled by
study They had fair faces. and womanly
forms. and warm affections, and strong
impulsive passions, and mother wit, and
keen discernment. and most vigorous
resolution, but nothing that We could
coll learning-not one of them. Portia,
Who acted the most learned part Of all
Shakspeare's women, vehemently de-
cribes herself as
IAN unlessoned girl, unschoolsd, unpraoticed." )"
George Eliot has created for US whole
host of young women. all real. all true
to nature. Herself q woman, and genius
Of the highest order, penetrating,
learned. accomplished. subtle, and with
q power Of discriminating language
unequaled in our generation;
a wife and mother, too-she was the best
fitted woman of the age unquestionably
to draw for us picture of young wo-.
manhood highly educated in knowledge,
up to the educationalist's ideal. Where
do you find such character in her
writings? Dorothea IN "Middlemarch"
had exactly the making of the successful
omnivorous young female students Of
the present day; intellectual, conscien-
tious, Observation-Disclosures such
young women often are to their COST
''studious, her mind was theoretic, and
yesrned after some lofty conceptions OF
enamored of intensity and greatness"
She was self.saorifcing to fault.
She was often ardent, and not
in the least self.admiripg. Yet
Dorothea is not highly educated in
the modern sense. Perhaps Q modern
educationalist would say that that was
the reason poor Dorothea made such .
mess OF it, and threw herseli away, first
on selfish, shallow old brute, thinking
he was hero, and then on the least in
teresting fellow in the book. =
I confess I more agree with Hannah
More's notion of education for such q
girl: II call education not that which
smothers woman with Accomplishments
but that which tends to consolidate Q
firm and regular system of character,
that which tends to form friend. com
psnion, and wife. I call education not
that which is made up of shreds and
patches of useless arts. but that which
incuicates principles, polishes faster,
regulates temper, cultivates reason, sub.
dues the passions, directs the feelings,
babituates to reflection, and trains to
self.denial-that which refers all actions,
feelings, sentiments, tastes and passions
to the love and fear Of God"
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