l of this sex springs from the want of interesting Objects
of pursuits. The boy is no sooner arrived at his youth, than a world of
occupations opens before him. He turns from his father's roof and gives
himself to preparation for some manly calling. A thousand scenes are
daily in his path. Adventure, enterprise, the collision of men, and of
interests, all rush in to fill his youthful spirit. In such courses
trouble stands in his way but for an hour. The agitation and turmoil of
life soon sweep from his bosom even the memory of yesterday's sorrows.

Far different is the lot of the gentle girl. Her school-day tasks
completed, what great object comes in their stead? She has a bounding
pulse, high hopes, and ardent purposes. But whither shall they now be
directed? Will she not fancy the little sphere of home quite too
contracted for her feelings and exertions? In this position of the young
woman, there is much of suffering, that springs from unexhausted
feeling, and is wrought into acute pain. Let her beware of a morbid
self-contemplation. Let her see that she do not expend on her own
thoughts, desires, and feelings, that energy, which should be given to
God, and her associates in humanity. What a foe must she now guard
against. How high and glorious should be that great object, that is to
receive the full strength of her interest.

Woman is tried by her comparative Defencelessness in Public. She may
hold opinions dear to her heart, and sound in themselves. These views
may be unjustly assailed. Yet such is the sentiment of the community she
inhabits, that it would degrade her, to appear as a public champion of
her opinions, wrestling in the vulgar arena with man. Her character may
be rudely aspersed; but who does not feel that to defend it by lifting
up her voice in tumultuous assemblies, or even to enter the lists with
her pen, were derogatory to her sex.

The law of the land may bear, in some instances, unjustly upon her. She
may be deprived of natural rights. No one can deny that she did thus
suffer, and was grievously oppressed, by the laws against Witchcraft, in
the early history of New England. Nor is it impossible that taxation may
wrong her; that divorces may separate her, without right, from her
partner; that fines, imprisonment, and even capital punishment, may be
visited iniquitously upon her. Still what evils, what a vast
preponderance of harm, would accrue, on the whole, from her mingling in
the affairs of le