ct her own
natural and unregulated--her savage will, we might say--to the customs
and habits of civilized society. If educated into a moral being, she
learns to subject her will, not to the idea of what is agreeable or
useful, but to the idea of what is simply right. If educated into a
religious being, she learns to submit her will to the Divine Will, and
in her relation to God, she first becomes freed from the bonds of all
finite and transitory things, and attains to the region where perfect
obedience and perfect freedom coincide.[24] A woman who is virtuous, so
to speak, with regard to the first, might be characterized as polite;
she who is virtuous in regard to the second, as conscientious; and she
who is virtuous in regard to the third, as humble. She who is all these
may be said to have been thoroughly educated as to her Will. The culture
of the Will may be, then,

1. Social,
2. Moral,
3. Religious.

In this realm, as in that of the intellect, the process of education
consists in developing a spiritual being out of a natural being. It is
the clothing, or rather, the informing of the natural with the
spiritual. The part of education which relates to the social life is
almost entirely given to the parents; and generally, from the great
demands which business makes on the father, it falls almost wholly into
the hands of the mother. It is she who must train the little girl into
habits of neatness, of obedience, of order, of regularity, of
punctuality--small virtues, but the foundation stones of a moral
character, and into habits of unselfishness and of politeness.

_Social Culture._--Neatness in person, as in dress, is not natural to
the woman of a savage tribe, neither is it a characteristic of hermits.
It is the product of civilized society. It is a recognition, in some
sense, of the equality of others to one's self, a bending of the
undisciplined will to the pleasure and satisfaction of others. Like all
other habits, it becomes, in time, agreeable to the person who practises
it, but the first training into it, is a painful struggle.

Do we not all remember that in the picture painted by the melancholy
Jacques of the shadow side of human existence, the "_shining_ morning
face" of the child was not forgotten as one of the shadow tints of that
stage of life?

The education into habits of neatness is almost entirely in the hands of
the mother or of her deputies. She herself then must be thoroughly
educated into