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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...mind, sweetness and kindliness of spirit, belong to no one condition--are appropriated to no one estate. Men of low degree can have their patent of nobility as well as, perhaps better than those born in kings' houses. The serene light of selfcontrol, and the lofty character, may shine as brightly in the lowly dwelling of the poor as in the mansions of the rich. The work of human life is benevolence; the end of human culture is character. As these truths are appreciated, and realized more and more fully, by the widening consciousness of society, in that proportion will society recognize woman's true sphere and influence. I thus declare because I am fully persuaded that to woman herself it is given to be flrst to comprehend and interpret the great truths of human life, as well as to initiate and exemplify the practice thereof. True, hers is not the philosophic mind, using the phrase in the scholastic sense. She may not be summoned to ascend the rugged side of the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire; and tarry long days and nights, amid gloomy solitudes, enveloped by the darkening cloud, scared by the fierce flashes of the lightning, and the yet more terrible revealings of the Divine majesty; and to bring thence the mighty words which are to govern the world forever. But it is hers to treasure those apparently impracticable commands within her i nmost heart and in the fullness of time to interpret and to declare them. When God would inaugurate the reign of sympathy and tenderness, his angels appear to 'women. They receive them with modest confidence, and accept their tidings with grateful joy. Men scoff at the credulity of the weaker sex and decline the heavenly message. Whilst the mouths of Mary and Elizabeth are filled with...

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