has conquered those
enemies, has looked deeper into those mysteries, is superior at every
point, can in an instant flood his darkness with light, sweeps with
steady gaze the circumference of his groping thought, and shows him ever
an angelic intellect as well as a mother's heart! With such a mother,
filial love would almost become worship.

"How much of Francis Bacon's greatness was due to his mother, who was
the daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, tutor to King Edward VI.? Every
evening when Sir Anthony came home, he taught his daughter the lessons
he had given to his royal pupil. Anne Cooke mastered Latin, Greek, and
Italian, and became eminent as a scholar and translator, and she taught
her son. A suggestion of Bacon's reverence for her, some conception of
what he felt that he owed her, may be gained from the touching request
in his will that he might be buried by her side. 'For my burial, I
desire it may be in St. Michael's Church at Gorhambury, for there is the
grave of my mother.'"--_Address of Homer B. Sprague, at the laying of
the corner-stone of Sage College, Cornell University._

[20] For a full and masterly discussion of this subject, its evils and
remedies, I must refer to the report on the St. Louis Public Schools for
the year 1871-2, by Wm. T. Harris, Superintendent, p. 80 _et seq._

[21] A Mary Taylor, _First Duty of Women_, p. 93, Emily Faithfull,
London, 1870.

[22] Extracts from the last two Reports of the President of Michigan
University on this point will be found in the Appendix.

[23] On the subject of Co-education, I refer again to the Report of Wm.
T. Harris, Superintendent of the Public Schools of St. Louis, for
1869-70, p. 17 _et seq._, where the actual effects, physical, mental and
moral are given in detail.

"The one that received the seed into the good ground is the one
that heareth the word and understandeth it."

MORAL EDUCATION;

OR,

THE CULTURE OF THE WILL.

"In hire is hye bewte withouten pryde,
Youthe withouten grefhed or folye;
To all her werkes vertue is her gyde,
Humblesse hath slayen in her, tyrrannye,
She is mirrour of alle curtesye;
Hir perte is verray chambre of holynesse,
Her hand mynistre of fredom and almesse."

--CHAUCER, MAN OF LAWES TALE.

The thorough education of the Will is that which renders the pupil

1. Civilized,
2. Moral,
3. Religious.

If educated into a civilized being, she learns to subje