the delicacy of woman by her acts? No. Her retiring modesty was
characteristic of her to the latest period of her life. It was my
privilege to enjoy her society some years ago, and I found all
that belonged to the feminine in woman--to true nobility, in a
refined and purified moral nature. Is Dorothea Dix throwing off
her womanly nature and appearance in the course she is pursuing?
In finding duties abroad, has any "refined man felt that
something of beauty has gone forth from her"? To use the
contemptuous word applied in the lecture alluded to, is she
becoming "mannish"? Is she compromising her womanly dignity in
going forth to seek to better the condition of the insane and
afflicted? Is not a beautiful mind and a retiring modesty still
conspicuous in her?

Indeed, I would ask, if this modesty is not attractive also, when
manifested in the other sex? It was strikingly marked in Horace
Mann, when presiding over the late National Educational
Convention in this city. The retiring modesty of William Ellery
Channing was beautiful, as well as of many others who have filled
elevated stations in society. These virtues, differing as they
may in degree in man and woman, are of the same nature, and call
forth our admiration wherever manifested.

The noble courage of Grace Darling is justly honored for risking
her own life on the coast of England, during the raging storm, in
order to rescue the poor, suffering, shipwrecked mariner.

Woman was not wanting in courage in the early ages. In war and
bloodshed this trait was often displayed. Grecian and Roman
history have lauded and honored her in this character. English
history records her courageous women too, for unhappily we have
little but the records of war handed down to us. The courage of
Joan of Arc was made the subject of a popular lecture not long
ago by one of our intelligent citizens. But more noble, moral
daring is marking the female character at the present time, and
better worthy of imitation. As these characteristics come to be
appreciated in man too, his warlike acts with all the miseries
and horrors of the battle-ground will sink into their merited
oblivion, or be remembered only to be condemned. The heroism
displayed in the tented field must yield to the moral and
Christian her