PART IV.
CO-EDUCATION.
u Pistoc. Where, then, should I take my place ?
1st Bacch. Near myself, that, with a she wit, a he wit may be reclining at our repast.” — Bacciiides of Plautus.
“The woman’s-rights movement, with its conventions, its speech-makings, its crudities, and eccentricities, is nevertheless a part of a healthful and necessary movement of the human race towards progress.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Guided by the laws of development which we have found physiology to teach, and warned by the punishments, in the shape of weakness and disease, which we have shown their infringement to bring about, and of which our present methods of female education furnish innumerable examples, it is not difficult to discern certain physiological principles that limit and control the education, and, consequently, the co-education of our us