PART II.

OBJECTIVE.

“Man is not a system-builder; his loftiest attainment reaches no higher than this: through endeavor, through discipline, through virtue, he may see what is.” — Plato.

Recognizing the position of woman as a chief factor in all political and social prob­lems, and the necessity to their happiest solution of her most healthful status , especial regard has been had to the consideration of employments, which, from their character, might be presumed to affect deleteriously the female operative, and more especially the establishment and normal course of her peculiar sexual functions. The field of in­quiry as to the effect of over-mental exertion on the special function of the sex, so vigor­ously opened by Prof. Clarke, has found

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