education of men, plead equally strongly in favour of the higher
education of women. In all the departments of home, intelligence
will add to woman's usefulness and efficiency. It will give her
thought and forethought, enable her to anticipate and provide for
the contingencies of life, suggest improved methods of management,
and give her strength in every way. In disciplined mental power
she will find a stronger and safer protection against deception
and imposture than in mere innocent and unsuspecting ignorance; in
moral and religious culture she will secure sources of influence
more powerful and enduring than in physical attractions; and in
due self-reliance and self-dependence she will discover the truest
sources of domestic comfort and happiness.

But while the mind and character of women ought to be cultivated
with a view to their own wellbeing, they ought not the less to be
educated liberally with a view to the happiness of others. Men
themselves cannot be sound in mind or morals if women be the
reverse; and if, as we hold to be the case, the moral condition of
a people mainly depends upon the education of the home, then the
education of women is to be regarded as a matter of national
importance. Not only does the moral character but the mental
strength of man find their best safeguard and support in the moral
purity and mental cultivation of woman; but the more completely
the powers of both are developed, the more harmonious and well-
ordered will society be--the more safe and certain its elevation
and advancement.

When about fifty years since, the first Napoleon said that the
great want of France was mothers, he meant, in other words, that
the French people needed the education of homes, provided over by