34 WOMAN IN SCIENCE 



not Plato have Aspasia speak in his dialogues? Does not 

 Sappho hold the lyre at the same time as Alcaeus and Pin- 

 dar? Did not Themista philosophize with the sages of 

 Greece? And the mother of the Gracchi, your Cornelia, 

 and the daughter of Cato, wife of Brutus, before whom 

 pale the austere virtue of the father and the courage of 

 the husband are they not the pride of the whole of Rome ? 

 I shall add but one word more. Was not it women to 

 whom our Lord first appeared after His resurrection ? Yes, 

 men could then blush for not having sought what the 

 women had found. m 



Time has spared a joint letter of Paula and Eustochium 

 to their friend Marcella a letter which exhibits so well 

 the rare culture and literary ability of the writers that we 

 cannot but lament that we have not more of the corre- 

 spondence which was carried on between the learned in- 

 mates of the Church of the Household on the Aventine 

 and Paula 's convent home near the Church of the Nativity 

 in Bethlehem. Such a collection would be beyond price, 

 as it would complete the picture of the age so well sketched 

 by St. Jerome ; and, as a contribution to the literary world, 

 it would have a value not inferior to that of those exquisite 

 classics of a later age the letters of Madame Sevigne to 

 her daughter. 2 



WOMAN AND EDUCATION DURING THE MIDDLE AGES 



The period of nearly a thousand years intervening be- 

 tween the downfall of Rome in A.D. 476 and the taking 

 of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453 is usually known 



1 In his preface to the Commentary on Sophonius. 



2 For an exhaustive account of the lives and achievements of S*. 

 Jerome and his noble friends, Paula and Eustochium, the reader is 

 referred to L'Histoire de Sainte Paule, by F. Lagrange, Paris, 1870, 

 and Saint Jerome, La Societe Chretienne a Eome et ^Emigration Eo~ 

 maine en Terre Sainte, by A. Thierry, Paris, 1867. Cf . also Woman 's 

 Work in Bible Study and Translation, by A. H. Johns in The Cath- 

 olic World, New York, June, 1912. 



