that this is not an age of miracles – that all their own knowledge did not spring into their minds without labour & without instruction. Let them but open their eyes to the true state of thigns and they will see that from the north to south from the east to the west public institutions are created for their improvement that no such provision is made, we cannot arrive to that perfection which is only gradually to be attained.
But let us no longer look at the gloomy picture of the past or present condition of woman in society. Let us rather think of the station in which we are permitted the delightful hope that a few more years shall find her. Instead of beholding her the slave of ignorance or the dupe of flattery we behold her cultivated by a judicious education, moving in a sphere of enlightened assistance and benevolent regards to all whom she can benefit – and thus becoming ennobled in the eyes of her superiod man and her Maker. Tod.