John Angell James
28 pages
"It is the first lesson of wisdom, to know our place; the second, to keep it. And of course, corresponding with this, to ascertain the duties of our place, and to discharge them. There are class duties as well as individual ones, and the latter are generally to be more accurately learned by an intelligent apprehension of the former. Woman, as such, has her mission. What is it? What is precisely that rank she is to occupy - that purpose she is to fulfill, above which she would be unduly exalted, and below which she would be as unjustly degraded? This is a subject which should be thoroughly understood, in order that she should know what to claim, and man what to concede - that she may know what she has to do, and he what he has a right to expect." - extract