oes she love God, inspire her with a
boundless philanthropy. Thus will she be a true companion and undisputed
equal of man. Excitableness and acute sensibility will be beautifully
tempered in her by the spirit of sound knowledge and good sense. The
whole character shall be fitly framed together in Christ and in life.

Let the education of woman be commensurate with her influence. Is it
true that, in the complexion of social life, she is mistress of that
which decides its hues? Then let her be trained to wield this fearful
power with skill, with principle, and for the salvation of social man.
Does she sometimes bear the sceptre of a nation's wellbeing in her
hand? Cato said of his countrymen, "The Romans govern the world, but it
is the women that govern the Romans." The discovery of this very
continent testifies to the political influence of woman. Who favored the
bold genius of Columbus? Do you say Ferdinand of Spain? I answer, it was
Isabella, prompting her partner to the patronage he so reluctantly
bestowed. Her influence unexerted, the Genoese mariner had never worn
the laurel that now graces his brow. Will you leave this all-potent
being illiterate, to rear sons debased by ignorance, and to become dupes
of the demagogue?

Look at the Domestic circle. Not more surely does the empress of night
illuminate and beautify the whole canopy of heaven, than does woman, if
educated aright, irradiate, and give its fairest tints to, her own
fireside. To leave her uncultivated, a victim to ignorance, prejudice,
and the vices they entail, is to take home to our own bosoms a brood
that will inflict pangs sharper than death. For the love and honor of
our homes, let us encourage the most liberal culture of the female mind.

A more general diffusion of the privileges now enjoyed by a few only,
would prevent the envy of others, no less than the vanity of the favored
ones. It would assimilate the tastes, and multiply the sympathies, of
the sexes; it would repress the arrogant sense of superiority in man,
and convince him that woman was neither made for a household drudge, nor
yet for an education of mere show and accomplishment. The useful would
be seen to benefit her at least as much as man.

Some are fearful that women may become too learned, that they will then
be discontent with their ordinary occupations, and become tinged with
"blue," and lose their native simplicity. Such should recollect that it
is "shallow draughts" of knowl