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II The DUTIES OF WoMAN--lt is a paltry spirit
which would always detract from the elevated
task which woman has to perform. Well has
it been asked who can elevate its dignity No,
to make laws, not to lead armies, not to govern
empires, but to form those by whom the laws
are made, and armies led, and empires govern
ed toguard from the slightest taint of posi-
BILE infirmity the frail and yet spotless creature
whose moral no less than physical being must
be derived from her; 10 inspire those doctrines,
TO animate those, sentiments which generations
yet unborn, and nations yet uncivllzed, shall
learn to bless to soften irmness into mercy,
and chasten honor into refinement; to exal'
generosity into virtue by her soothing cares !;
to alay the anguish of the body, and the far
worse anguish Of the mind; by her tenderness
tosdisarm passions by her purity, to triumph
over sense ito cheer the scholar, sinking under
his toll to console the statesman for the in
gratitude of mistaken people; to offer conso-
lation for the hopes that are blghed, fnr friends
that are perfdious, for happiness that has passed
away.


Such is her vocation--the couch of the tor
the cross Of rejected Saviour; these are the
scenes Of womans excellence, these are the
theatres on which her greatest triumphs have
been ac.ievet. Such is her destiny, to visi,
the forsaken, to attend to the neglected, when
mnnarchs abandon, when Justice persecutes,
when brethren and disciples fly, to remain I'M
shaken aud unchanged and TO exhibit on this
lower world a type of that love, pure, constant,
and ineffable, which, in another world, we are
taught to believe The best of virtues.