IV PREFACE. 



number of manual employments, but also to widen the hori- 

 zon of observation, for woman, I shall be happy. The imagi- 

 nations and feelings of women are sufficiently cultivated ; but 

 perhaps common sense is less so, because it finds less stimu- 

 lus for action in the present partial education and cramped 

 position of women. Novels, poetry, and excitement-meetings 

 may all be very well as occasional mental condiments, but 

 when offered as the only diet to the sex whose nervous con- 

 stitution is proverbially sensitive, it may lead the physician 

 and philanthropist to doubt whether these kinds of mental 

 dietetics do not produce much of that nervousness, insanity, 

 and hopeless hypochondriasis, which cause humanity to war 

 with itself both within and without. 



E. A. UPTON. 



