The Endowments, Position and Education of Woman

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Excerpt from The Endowments, Position and Education of Woman: An Address Delivered Before the Hemans and Sigourney Societies of the Female High School at Limestone Springs, July 23, 1850We are met together, young Ladies, to celebrate the anniversary of your Societies, to lend you whatever encouragement our presence may give to your laudable efforts at self-improvement , and to bestow upon you that counsel which it. is the duty and privilege of age to. proffer to those who are rushing forward, in the confidence and hilarity of youth, to occupy those positions from which we who are here must shortly retire. The duties of life to all human beings are arduous, its objects are noble - each stage of its progress is preparatory to some other stage, and the whole a preparation to an interminable existence, upon which, in one sense, we are hereafter to enter, and in another, have entered already. Others may slightly regard the employments, trials and joys of the school girl. I am disposed to put on them a higher value. Our wives, our sisters, and our mothers were in the same position yesterday. You will occupy a like position with them to-morrow. Whatever of virtue, of patient endurance, of poignant suffering, of useful labor, of noble impulse, of generous endeavor. of influence exerted on society for its good, has been exhibited in their example, in a few short years we shall see exhibited also in yours. You will be exerting on society that influence which your own sex has always exerted for good or for evil, and which the position in which Providence has placed you, and the nature which the Creator has given to us all, secure inevitably to you.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.