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ing the sweetest sources of man's felicity. Theirs is the reign of 

 beauty, of love, of reason. Always a reign! A man takes counsel 

 of bis wife ; be obeys bis mother ; he obeys her long after she has 

 ceased to live, and the ideas which he has received from her become 

 principles stronger even than his passions." Aime Martin, to write 

 thus, must have found good women in France; women to redeem 

 their country from our too severe censures. 



The inductions to be made from these truths are plain, and the 

 duty the most imperative man can know, since the welfare of his 

 posterity, the prosperity of his country, the enduring happiness of all 

 human beings, are involved. Woman is to be trained with a fuller 

 appreciation in herself of her high trust, and of her capacity for good 

 or evil ; and if she be good and worthy of her trust, man is to learn 

 to confide in her generosity, to honor her, and to sustain her authority 

 for good, as something better and greater than his own. His children 

 are to be kept as much and as long under her control as possible, 

 even while they are obtaining their school and college education, and 

 under her influence for life. Women are to make home the happiest 

 place in the world, and husbands and sons are there to find their 

 happiness, and to cultivate kindness and the courtesies of life. If 

 sometimes they seek amusements abroad, wife and sisters should share 

 them. Let them seek no luxuries in selfish seclusion. Let this be 

 their general practice, and how many drinking and gambling houses 

 would there not cease to exist, and club-houses exist only for the cheer- 

 less unfortunates who have no family. Hotels would be for travellers ; 

 and haunts of vice, not to be named, would be few. The city at 

 night would sleep in peace, its silence unprofaned by inebriate brawl- 

 ers; prisons and almshouses become of diminished necessity. It is 

 the homeless and traitors to home that cause the chief public charge. 

 Then a public opinion could ari.se, now too feeble to suppress or re- 

 strict by law these sources of countless evils and sorrows, and woman 

 be often saved the most terrible calamities ever inflicted upon hu- 

 manity, and from which death only can relieve her. 



It is not for us in America to boast of our advantages, but to ex- 

 press an overflowing gratitude for them, and leave examples that are 

 good to exert their silent and enduring influences upon other peoples. 

 We may not be boastful, for we yet see large room for improvement, 

 a,nd for the expansion of the good we witness. Yet may we rejoice 

 in the testimony borne of us by recent travellers of the highest in- 

 telligence, who have marked a contrast fiivorable to us as compared 

 with our parental nations of Europe. *' You may estimate the mo- 



