lness.

The being who lives for one relation only can not possess the
power and scope which are required for the highest excellence
even in that one. If the whole body is left without exercise, one
arm does not become strong; if the tree is stunted in its growth,
one branch does not shoot into surpassing luxuriance.

That woman whose habits and mental training enable her to assist
and sustain her husband in seasons of difficulty, and whose
children rely on her as a wise counselor, commands a life-long
reverence far deeper and dearer than can be secured by transient
accomplishments, or the most refined and delicate imbecility! All
women are not wives and mothers, but all have spirits needing
development, powers that grow with their exercise.

Those who are best acquainted with the state of society know that
there is, at this time, a vast amount of unhappiness among women
for want of free outlets to their powers; that thousands are
yearning for fuller development, and a wider field of usefulness.
The same energies which in man find vent in the professions, and
in the thousand forms of business and study, must find an
ennobling channel in woman, else they will be frittered away in
trifles, or turned into instruments to prey upon their possessor.

To follow the empty round of fashion, to retail gossip and
scandal, to be an ornament in the parlor or a mere drudge in the
kitchen, to live as an appendage to any human being, does not
fill up nor satisfy the capacities of a soul awakened to a sense
of its true wants, and the far-reaching and mighty interests
which cluster around its existence.

We protest against the tyranny of that public sentiment which
assigns any arbitrary sphere to woman. God has made the happiness
and development of His creatures to depend upon the free exercise
of their powers and faculties. Freedom is the law of beauty,
written by His fingers upon the human mind, and the only
condition upon which it can attain to its fall stature, and
expand in its natural and beautiful proportions.

It is recognized, in reference to man, that his judgment,
opportunities, and abilities are the proper measure of his
sphere. "The tools to him who can use them." But the same
principles are not trusted in their application to woman, lest