ies, but in our lower grades of
schools; and--as he has taught us that the head is not all, but the body
a good deal--in our food, in our times of downsitting and uprising, in
our hours of retiring, in the ventilation of our churches, public halls
and private homes. We are at last to understand, what it is so hard for
an American to understand, that to wait is sometimes as much a duty as
to work.

Dr. Clarke meant to prove, that co-education, in the popular
signification of that term, for physiological reasons, is an
impossibility. He succeeded, as he thinks, theoretically, but failed, as
he confesses, practically, for the want of sufficient data. What he
indirectly proved was of much more vital importance, because it affects
the whole nation; that, for physiological reasons, American women, and
consequently the American people, cannot live at this high-pressure
rate, which means death. The universal interest which his book has
awakened, the rapidly following reviews and criticisms, the numerous
essays which have since been published, on the same and kindred
subjects, show that thinking minds were already working their way to
definite conclusions and expression on this now most important of all
subjects--how to give back to the American woman the bloom and physical
strength, the elasticity and fresh old age which are hers by the right
of inheritance.

No one will deny Dr. Clarke's statement, that, with the best of
opportunities, she does not in these respects compare favorably with
her trans-Atlantic sisters. But we are not willing to admit that the
strength of the German _fraeulein_ and English damsel must be purchased
at so great a sacrifice as the giving up of all systematic study, and
consequently of all higher intellectual development.

The "sacred number three," which we are told "dominates the human
frame," dominates also the whole being. There is the physical, the
moral, and the mental; and we are not to cast such a reflection upon the
Author of our being, as to suppose that the proper development of the
one must be at the expense of the other. If God demands more of woman's
physical nature than of man's, he has wisely provided for it, within
that nature. Faith in his benevolence leads us to this conclusion. It is
just as true, that where much will be required, much has been given, as
that where much has been given, much will be required. When woman learns
the laws which govern her physical nature, and has th