usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her. Now this sensibility to the present, is the main quality on which the capacity for practice, as distinguished from theory, depends. To discover general principles, belongs to the speculative faculty: to discern and dis­criminate the particular cases in which they are and are not applicable, constitutes practical talent: and for this, women as they now are have a peculiar aptitude. I admit that there can be no good practice without principles, and that the predominant place which quickness of obser­vation holds among a woman’s faculties, makes her particularly apt to build over-hasty gene­ralizations upon her own observation; though at the same time no less ready in rectifying those generalizations, as her observation takes a wider range. But the corrective to this defect, is access to the experience of the human race; general knowledge—exactly the thing which education can best supply. A woman’s mistakes are spe­cifically those of a clever self-educated man, who often sees what men trained in routine do not see, but falls into errors for want of knowing things Avhich have long been known. Of course he has acquired much of the pre-existing know­ledge, or he could not have got on at all; but what he knows of it he has picked up in frag­ments and at random, as women do.