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of two or three years, through the whole circle
of sciences, besides languages and all the accom-
plishments! While crowded and fashionable
boarding schools, (on the present system of pri-
vate and irresponsible establishments) continue
to be the sole places of instruction, the evil can-
not be remedied. From two to three hundred
pupils are consigned to the eare of one woman;
wise, good and intelligent she may be, but is not
such a charge beyond the ability of any woman?
Experience has proved this to be the fact; and
instead of being instructed by a woman, whose
virtues and talents have conferred reputation on
her school, the real instruction of the pupils is
left to assistants, most usually young inexperi-
enced assistants, who, deriving only pecuniary
rewards for their arduous labours, are left with-
out that responsibility, which is such a powerful
incentive to the performanes of duty—without
that reputation which is one of its great rewards.

If such are the difficulties and disadvantages
attending intellectual improvement under this
system of boarding-school education, how are
those attending moral culture enhanced! The
thing is impossible. Before females are educa-
ted as they ought to be, a complete revolution
must take place. An entirely new system must
be formed. The work you are now editing will
be a most excellent medium for the transmission
of ideas on this subject, and I rejoice that you
design making it the principal object of your at-
tention. You place woman in her proper sphere,
without any of that exaggeration, or deficiency
of practical utility, or feminine delicacy, which
too often characterize schemes for the improve-
ment of the sex. Go on as you have begun and
you must prosper; and ultimately your views
will succeed, for they are true; and the truth must,
in the end, prevail!"

Ah, it is very pleasant to receive an encourag-
ing word and kind wishes when we are labouring
in the strong hope of doing good. That a great
change is being effected in public opinion re-
specting the estimation in which the influence of
woman should be held, no one who reads and ob-
serves the signs of the times can doubt. The
vast moral power of the sex, and the advantages
which society will gain by having this power
used wisely, is rapidly attracting the attention of
philosophers, as well as christians—and states-
men and legislators cannot long neglect to make
special provision for the education of females.
And when woman enjoys the advantages of edu-
cation, in the manner appropriate to her charac-
ter and duties, proportionally with man, she will
no longer deserve or incur from him the epithet
of "romantic animal."

Editor.