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more directly rooted in woman's wit and in 

 mother-wit; their broader than masculine 

 common-sense, their warmer and more varied 

 sympathies being again developments of 

 mother-sense and mother-kindness. 



May we not learn something here from 

 Catholic tuition, with its far more emphatic 

 idealism of woman, and its tradition of educa- 

 tion accordingly? Are our well-established 

 girls' schools and women's colleges, with their 

 predominant examinations and ball-games 

 *so curiously replacing Hangnail's " Questions " 

 and " the use of the globes " really as com- 

 plete and final as their governing bodies and 

 their prize products are wont to proclaim? 

 May they not make their next steps in progress 

 by for a moment turning backwards? For 

 thus, in the first step, they would recover the 

 meanings of the despised old " globes " and 

 " accomplishments " ; which were alive in the 

 time of the great ladies of the Renaissance, 

 who sold their jewels to fit out Columbus on 

 his voyage over the sphere, and later adopted 

 the new astronomy before either church or 

 universities ; and who not only helped on the 

 new learning, but the vernacular literature 

 .and the Renaissance arts as well. How did 

 they accomplish all this? Because at that 

 period of commanding masculine intensity 

 with men again like their Roman exemplars, 

 lords of action, and masters of thought with 

 Plato and the Greeks they were themselves 

 ^correspondingly evolved and intensified as 

 women ; and thus, more than ever in history, 

 and for good as well as evil, they made them- 

 selves queens of life. 



