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by Ellice Hopkins

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Title: The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons
A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis

Author: Ellice Hopkins

Release Date: June 13, 2005 [EBook #16047]

Language: English

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THE
POWER OF WOMANHOOD
OR
MOTHERS AND SONS

A BOOK FOR PARENTS, AND THOSE IN
LOCO PARENTIS

BY ELLICE HOPKINS

AUTHOR OF "LIFE AND LETTERS OF JAMES HINTON,"
"WARS AMONG WORKINGMEN," ETC.

Sow an act, and you reap a habit:
Sow a habit, and you reap a character:
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

NEW YORK
E.P. DUTTON & COMPANY
31 West Twenty-Third Street
1901 Copyright, 1899

Copyright, 1899
By
E.P. DUTTON & CO.

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

PREFACE

This little book has been written under great physical disabilities,
chiefly while wandering about in search of health, and consequently far
from the libraries which would have enabled me to give proper references
to all my quotations. Often for a whole year I have been unable to touch
it; but again and again I have returned to my task, feeling it worth any
risk to mind or body if only in the end its words might prove of some
service to the educated mothers of England and America.

Under these circumstances, I know I may plead for indulgence as to any
defects its pages may present.

But now that, after six years, I have realized the pretty Eastern
proverb, "By patience and perseverance, and a bottle of sweet-oil, the
snail at length reaches Jerusalem,"--now that by God's unfailing help I
have finished my difficult task, I can but commit the book into the
hands of the women who have implanted in me, next to my faith in God,
faith in the "Power of Womanhood," and whose faithful adherence and
co-operation remain the deepest and most grateful memory of my life.
Most of the ordinary means of circulation are closed to a book of this
nature. The do