e courage to live
in accordance with those laws, it will be found that she has strength to
be a woman, a Christian and a scholar. It is just as true in her case as
in man's, that proper brain activity stimulates physical activity.

There are many sickly girls to be found in our schools, but they are
often sickly when they come to us; often, too, under the seeming garb of
health, the seeds of disease are already germinating, and it is time,
not study, which brings them to the surface.

When mothers are able to send us strong, healthy girls, with simple
habits and unperverted tastes, we will return to them and the world
strong, healthy women, fitted, physically and mentally, for woman's
work.

It is continuous education, not co-education, which Dr. Clarke really
condemns; but every teacher knows that continuity of effort is essential
to sound mental development, and that this off-and-on method, which he
seems to recommend, would destroy all order in the school, and make all
work in the class-room impossible. If, then, his theory--that for
physiological reasons girls cannot endure continuous study--is the true
theory, not only our colleges and universities ought to remain closed
against women, but all our schools for girls over fourteen years of age
ought to be closed also, and the pupils sent home, to receive such
instruction as they can from private teachers, at such times as their
bodies can afford to lend time to their heads.

We say _ought_, and we mean what we say; for we are not "so
professionally committed to a dangerous experiment" as to insist upon
it, if once convinced that it is dangerous; neither are we "urgent
reformers, who care less for human suffering and human life, than for
the trial of a theory." Dr. Clarke believes, "if the causes which have
brought about the present ill-health of American women continue for the
next half century, and increase in the same ratio as they have for the
last fifty years, that we shall cease to be an American people." We
believe it, too; but we do not believe, as he does, that the chief
causes of this ill-health are to be laid at the doors of our seminaries
and colleges. We believe that more girls are benefited than are injured
by the regimen of a well-regulated school, and our belief is founded
upon years of observation. The number is not small, of girls, who have
come to us pale, nervous and laboring under many of the ills of which
Dr. Clarke speaks, to whom the regula