time, and method of doing. Prudence learns from experience,
quickened by knowledge.

For these, amongst other reasons, habits of business are necessary
to be cultivated by all women, in order to their being efficient
helpers in the world's daily life and work. Furthermore, to
direct the power of the home aright, women, as the nurses,
trainers, and educators of children, need all the help and
strength that mental culture can give them.

Mere instinctive love is not sufficient. Instinct, which
preserves the lower creatures, needs no training; but human
intelligence, which is in constant request in a family, needs to
be educated. The physical health of the rising generation is
entrusted to woman by Providence; and it is in the physical nature
that the moral and mental nature lies enshrined. It is only by
acting in accordance with the natural laws, which before she can
follow woman must needs understand, that the blessings of health
of body, and health of mind and morals, can be secured at home.
Without a knowledge of such laws, the mother's love too often
finds its recompence only in a child's coffin. (19)

It is a mere truism to say that the intellect with which woman as
well as man is endowed, has been given for use and exercise, and
not "to fust in her unused." Such endowments are never conferred
without a purpose. The Creator may be lavish in His gifts, but he
is never wasteful.

Woman was not meant to be either an unthinking drudge, or the
merely pretty ornament of man's leisure. She exists for herself,