SELECTED SCRAPS.

WOMEN.
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Great indeed is the task assigned to women;
who can elevate its dignity 2 Not TO make
laws, not to lead armies, not to govern en-
pires but to form those by whom laws are
made, armies led, and empires governed; to
guard against the slightest taintof bodily in
trinity, the frail yet spotless creature whose
moral no less than physical being must be de-,
rived from her; to inspire those principles, to
inculcate those doctrines, to animate those SEN
timents which generations yet unborn and ma
tions yet uncvilized shall learn to bless to
soften frmness into mercy and chasten honor
into refinement; to exalt generosity into virtue
by soothing care to allay the anguish OF the
body and the far worse anguish Of the mind;
by her tenderness TO disarm passion; by her
purity to triumph over sense; to cneer the scho-
lar sinking under his toll; to console the states
man for the ingrattude OF a mistaken people
to be compensatory for friends that are per.
fdious, for happiness that has passed away
Such is her vocation. The couch Of the tor
tured sufferer, the prison Of the deserted friend
the cross Of The reserted Saviour these are the.
aires on which her great triumphs have been
achieved Such is her destiny, to visit the
forsaken, to attend to the neglected, when
monarchs abandon, when councillors betray
when brethren and disciples fee, to remain
unshaken and unchanged; and to exbit in this
lower world a type of that love, pure, con-
stant and lneflable, which in another world we
are taught to believe the test Of virtue.


Blackwood's Magazine.