Lucy Stone once said, “Woman’s nature was stamped and sealed by the Almighty, and there is no danger of her unsexing herself while his eye watches her.”  Margaret Fuller said, “One hour of love will teach a woman more of her true relations than all your philosophizing.”  These were the testimony of women who had studied Greek, and were only the more womanly for the study.  They are worth the opinions of a million half-developed beings like the Duchess de Fontanges, who was described as being “as beautiful as an angel and as silly as a goose.”  The greater includes the less.  Your view from the mountain-side may be very pretty, but she who has taken one step higher commands your view and her own also.  It was no dreamy recluse, but the accomplished and experienced Stendhal, who wrote, “The joys of the gay world do not count for much with happy women."[1]

If a highly educated man is incapable and unpractical, we do not say that he is educated too well, but not well enough.  He ought to know what he knows, and other things also.  Never yet did I see a woman too well educated to be a wife and a mother; but I know multitudes who deplore, or have reason to deplore, every day of their lives, the untrained and unfurnished minds that are so ill-prepared for these sacred duties.  Every step towards equalizing the opportunities of men and women meets with resistance, of course; but every step, as it is accomplished, leaves men still men, and women still women.  And as we who heard Adelaide Phillipps felt that she had never had a better tribute to her musical genius than this young Irish girl’s tears, so the true woman will feel that all her college training for instance, if she has it, may have been well invested, even for the sake of the baby on her knee.  And it is to be remembered, after all, that each human being lives to unfold his or her own powers, and do his or her own duties first, and that neither woman nor man has the right to accept a merely secondary and subordinate life.  A noble woman must be a noble human being; and the most sacred special duties, as of wife or mother, are all included in this, as the greater includes the less.

[Footnote 1:  De l’Amour, par de Stendhal (Henri Beyle):  “Les plaisirs du grand monde n’en sont pas pour les femmes heureuses,” p. 189.]

A COPARTNERSHIP

Marriage, considered merely in its financial and business relations, may be regarded as a permanent copartnership.

Now, in an ordinary copartnership there is very often a complete division of labor among the partners.  If they manufacture locomotive-engines, for instance, one partner perhaps superintends the works, another attends to mechanical inventions and improvements, another travels for orders, another conducts the correspondence, another receives and pays out the money.  The latter is not necessarily the head of the firm.  Perhaps his place could be more easily filled than