ne with an intense enthusiasm for some
high pursuit, combined with that patient toil which, associated with a
vigorous intellect, is the well-spring of so many glorious streams of
science, should not such a result of this enlarged education be hailed
as the sign of its excellence, and rejoiced in as the proof of its
power? The Mores, the Hemanses, the De Staels, and others among the
immortal dead and the living, who compose that bright galaxy of female
wit shining ever refulgent--have they added nothing to human life, and
given no quick, upward impulse of the world? Besides, that system of
education which, in occasional instances, uniting with a material of
peculiar excellence, is sufficient to enkindle an orb whose light,
passing far beyond the circle of home, shall shine upon a great assembly
of minds, will only be powerful, in the multitude of cases, to impart
that intellectual discipline, that refinement of thought, that power of
expression, that sympathy with taste for knowledge, which will best
prepare her for her position, and enable her in after life to carry
forward her own improvement and that of her associated household.

The finest influence of such an education is the development of a
character at once symmetrical, refined, vigorous, confident in its own
resources, yet penetrated with a consciousness of its distance from the
loftiest heights of power; a character which will be an ennobling life
in a household, gently influencing others into quiet paths of
excellence; to be felt rather than seen, to be understood rather in its
results than admired for any manifest attainments in science; an
intellect informed and active, in sympathy with what is known and read
among men; able to bear its part in healthful discussions, yet not
presuming to dictate its opinions; in the presence of which ignorance
becomes enlightened and weakness strong; creating around its home an
atmosphere of taste and intelligence, in which the rudest life loses
some of its asperity, and the roughest toils much of their severity.
Such is the form of female character we seek to create by so enlarged an
education.

The education of the _heart_ reaches deeper, and spreads its influence
further than all things else. The intellect is only a beautiful piece of
mechanism, until the affections pour into it their tremendous vitality,
and send it forth in all directions instinct with power. When the
"dry-light" of the understanding is penetrated by