Little events and trivial operations engross her whole soul;
while a woman of sense, having provided for their probable recurrence, guards
against the inconveniences, without being disconcerted by the casual
obstructions which they offer to her general scheme.
A general capacity for knowledge and the cultivation of the understanding at
large, will always put a woman into the best state for directing her pursuits into
those particular channels which her destination in life may afterwards require. But
she should be carefully instructed that her talents are only a means to a still
higher attainment, and that, she is not to rest in them as an end; that merely to
exercise them as instruments for the acquisition of fame and the promotion of
pleasure, is subversive of her delicacy as a woman, and contrary to the spirit of a
Christian.
Study, therefore, is to be considered as the means of strengthening the mind,
and of fitting it for higher duties, just as exercise is to be considered as an
instrument for strengthening the body for the same purpose
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