... It Is The Right And Duty

We Now Come To The Grand Law Of The System In Which We Are Placed, As It Has Been Developed By The Experience Of Our Race, And That, In One Word, Is Sacrifice!

I Regard The Effort To Introduce Women Into Colleges For Young Men As Very Undesirable, And For Many Reasons. That The Two Sexes Should Be United, Both As Teachers And Pupils, In The Same Institution Seems Very Desirable, But Rarely In Early Life By A Method That Removes Them From Parental Watch And Care, And The Protecting Influences Of A Home.

As Liberty And Intelligence Have Increased The People Have More And More Revolted Against The Theological Dogmas That Contradict Common Sense And Wound The Tenderest Sensibilities Of The Soul.

When Institutions Are Endowed To Train Women For All Departments Connected With The Family State, Domestic Labor, Now So Shunned And Disgraced, Will Become Honorable, Will Gain Liberal Compensation, And Will Enable Every Woman To Secure An Independence In Employments Suited To Her Sex. And When This Is Attained, There Will Be Few Or None Who Wish To Enter The Professions Of Men Or Take Charge Of Civil Government.

The Ability To Secure An Independent Livelihood And Honorable Employ Suited To Her Education And Capacities Is The Only True Foundation Of The Social Elevation Of Woman, Even In The Very Highest Classes Of Society. While She Continues To Be Educated Only To Be Somebody's Wife, And Is Left Without Any Aim In Life Till That Somebody Either In Love, Or In Pity, Or In Selfish Regard At Last Grants Her The Opportunity, She Can Never Be Truly Independent.