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brain-work which, in his cases, he assumes to be the cause.

In the new education which is preparing for our girls, I trust regard
will be paid to training physicians for the souls of women, as well as
for their bodies, and there will surely be needed that very "feminine
subtlety" that divines, if it does not reason out, a cause. "I believe
in educating women to be physicians since I have read that book, if I
never did before," has been the exclamation of many women who have read
it. We want women physicians, educated to habits of thinking, logical,
as well as physiological--capable of tracing psychical, as well as
physical, causes. We want teachers so educated, women drawn to study the
science of teaching through a love of it, as Florence Nightingale was
led through seven years' preparation for her work--as a naturalist or an
artist is drawn to his work. We want women on our School Boards and
among our visiting committees, who know how to estimate the trust
committed to them, and who will give time, thought, and study to their
duties.

The science of education is, to-day, where the science of geology was
fifty years ago. We are just beginning to think of it as a science. Men
and women are waking up to its demands. Children, with their infinite
variety of organizations, temperaments, and idiosyncracies, can no more
be educated at random than plants, gathered from the four quarters of
the earth, can be perfected through the same culture, and in the same
climate and soil. Each child in the great crowd that gathers in our
schools, is in some respects like a particular musical instrument,
designed by God, in its complicated mechanism, to perform its particular
part, to yield its own particular tone in the diapason of life; and I
shudder when I think how rudely it is often played upon by untaught
teachers--teachers who have drifted to their work, or resorted to it as
a temporary occupation, for its profits, but who have never thought of
studying its principles, as physicians, lawyers, artists, study the
principles of their professions. Played upon by the unskilled hands of
those who have never troubled themselves to study the physical, much
less the psychic delicacy of this wonderful human instrument, the only
wonder is, that society should yield the harmonies it does. No! women
need to think more, not less; to increase, not diminish brain-work; to
overlive the drudgery of it, whether it involve teaching, writing,
study