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equalled and probably far exceeded that of all 

 other agencies whatever. 



The effect of the emotion of the ideal transmitted 

 to the young of the rising generation by woman 

 can never after be entirely effaced in the individual. 

 It is greater, deeper, and more enduring than the 

 effect of any system whatever of subsequent educa- 

 tion. Where it is combined with the effects of 

 such subsequent education, as to some extent it is 

 in the systems of modern Germany and Japan, it 

 becomes the most powerful element in character 

 formation, giving after results in capacity for per- 

 manent and sustained aim and sacrifice in the 

 individual absolutely impossible of attainment by 

 any other means. 



Wide acquaintance with the personal memoirs of 

 men who have been centres of Power in history, who 

 have become leaders of causes, or who have given 

 direction to the idealisms of classes, of interests, 

 Or of nations or of peoples in civilization, leave 

 developed in the mind with great strength the 

 conviction that the part played by woman in 

 giving direction to the mind of the young 

 through the emotion of the ideal far exceeds that 

 imagined by the world. It has been one of the 

 principal determining factors throughout human 

 history. 



