will you shape as opposed to the college, if Alice fairly ..

the beginning of our life should be without any help,
the middle without pleasure, and the end without solace". Byron
expresses the same more pathetically in his "Sardanapalus" (act 1, scene
2) -



"The very first of human life must spring from woman's breast;

Your first small words are taught you from her lips,

Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs

Too often breathed out in a woman's hearing,

When men have shrunk from the ignoble care

Of watching the last hour of him who led them."


Both indicate the correct point of view as to the value of women.



The very look of the female form teaches us that woman is made neither
for great intellectual nor corporeal labours. She bears the guilt of
life, not in doing, but in suffering; in the pains of childbirth, the
care for the child, subordination to the man, for whom she ought to be a
patient and cheerful companion. The severest sorrows, joys, and
manifestations of power do not fall to her lot; but her life should flow
on more quietly, more insignificantly, and more mildly than that of the
man, without its being essentially more happy or more unhappy.



As nurses and educators of our first childhood, women are suited,
precisely in that they are themselves childish, simple, and
short-sighted, in a word, are their whole life - grown-up children - a
kind of middle step between the child and the man, who is the true human
being. Only look at a girl, how for days together she plays with a
child, dances and sings with it, and think what a man with the best
intentions could accomplish in her place. Nature has destined the girl
to produce what in a dramatic sense is called a startling effect,
inasmuch as it has furnished her for a few years with superabundant
beauty, fascinati