Tribute--Shelley--Shakspeare--Rousseau, Barrett and Balzac--The Duke of
Halifax--Addison--Boyle--Sex in The Soul--Woman's Love of Ornament--Her
Dress the Perfection of What Man Demands of Her--Dr. Johnson's
Explanation--Testimony of John Ledyard to the Goodness of Woman--His
History--Woman's Enormous Influence over Man--How Men Live Where There
Are No Women--The History of Human Sickness a Monument of the Goodness
of Woman. Page 187.


Father.

Overshadowing Antiquity of the Word "Papa"--The Pope Is Simply Papa, in
Italian--Duties of the Son Toward the Father--Honesty of His Love for
You--Patriarchal Government the Beginning and Still the Prop of
Society--Old Age the Childhood of Immortality--Honor Attaching to
Greatness of years in the past--Age Still a Necessity in Many of the
Learned Professions--Age Is Indulgent Because It sees no Fault it Has
not Itself Committed--Time the Harper, Laying His Hand Gently on the
Harp of Life--Love of Little Children--The Village Blacksmith, the
Mighty Man--Respect for Venerable Years a Fitting Thing in the Most
Dignified of Young Men--Two Pictures, One Dark and the Other Bright.
Page 197


Mother.

A Great Subject--Chords Struck by Coleridge and Tennyson--She Has Risked
Her Life that Her Child Might Live--She Has Grown Spectre-Like that Her
Child Might Wax Strong--She Has Forgotten the Debt Due to Her in Her
Anxiety to Obtain an Acknowledgment of the Debt Due to God--Her