out fear of contradiction, that there is too much sickness among
American women. We may then patiently and fully investigate all the
habits of those women, and if we come to the conclusion that
co-education or that over-study in amount or in manner is the chief
cause, we shall all give it up. We shall then seek and find some better
way of securing for our girls an opportunity for the full development of
every part of their organization, venturing, however, to add 'brain' to
Dr. Clarke's list of "muscle, ovary, stomach, and nerve."[56]

Secondly, we may assume in the first place the general statement that
co-education is not desirable--is objectionable--that it must inevitably
cause sickness if girls study regularly every day; and conclude that
regular study is the chief cause of sickness among them.

And yet God is his own interpreter, and he will make it plain at last,
so that the man who runs may read, that he is no such bungler in his
workmanship as to fashion the organism of a woman without giving her at
the same time the corresponding strength. We have too much belief in him
to believe that the power given to us is in such niggardly measure for
our needs; that, in order to carry out perfectly the work of the organs
most peculiarly our own, the regular action of the brain must be
suspended. Not so. He who fits the shoulder to the burden; who, in
planning the complex organism, not only made possible greatly increased
size and strength whenever they should be needed, but even took thought
also to provide for the return of the blood through capillary and vein
from the artery which has been severed by the surgeon's knife, is not so
forgetful of ends and means. If extra work is to be done by the organism
of the woman, extra strength in exact proportion to the extra effort has
been provided,

"Where there is power to do
That which is willed."

To God, the brain of a woman is as precious as the ovary and uterus, and
as he did not make it impossible for her to think clearly when the
uterus is in a congested state, so, reasoning analogically from the
knowledge we have of him, no more did he design that the uterus should
not be capable of healthy and normal action while the brain is occupied
with a regular amount of exercise. Such is our creed.

We are more sure of Truth by the so-called deductive than by the
so-called inductive ladder, and it was not without meaning that she was
represented as dwelling at