Woman's mission.

Date:
1842
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Woman's mission. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chapter XL ON THE MEANS OF SEGUEING PEESONAL INFLUENCE. Eeverence in the child the future man. Destroy not in the man the rudiments of an angel. Barbauld. The qualities which seem more especially needful in a character which is to influence others, are con- sistencjj simplicity, and benevolence, or love. By consistency of character, I mean consistency of action with principle, of manner with thought, of self with self. The want of this quality is a failing with which our sex is often charged, and justly; but are we to blame? Our hearts are warm, our nerves irri- table, and we have seen how little there is, in existing systems of female education, calculated to give wide, lofty, self-devoted principles of action. Without such principles there can be no con- sistency of conduct; and without consistency of conduct there can be no available moral influence.