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good and imperative reason why they should be discussed by others ; to show how faulty and pregnant of ill the education of American girls has been and is, and to demonstrate the truth, that the progress and development of the race depend upon the appropriate, and not upon the identical education of the sexes. Little good will be done in this direction, however, by any advice or argument, by whatever facts supported, or by whatever authority presented, unless the women of our country are themselves convinced of the evils that they have been educated into, and out of which they are determined to educate their daughters. They must breed in them the lofty spirit Wallenstein bade his be of: —
“ Leave now the puny wish, the girlish feeling,
Oh, thrust it far oehiml tuee i Give thou proof Thou’rt the daughter of the Mighty, — his Who where he moves creates the wonderful.
Meet and disarm necessity by choice.”
Schiller : The Piccolomini, act iii. 8. (Coleridges Tran* lotion.)
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