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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
264
All
circumstances
well
examined,
there
can
be
no
doubt
Providence
has
willed
that
man
should
be
the
head
of
the
human
race,
even
as
woman
is
its
heart;
that
he
should
be
its
strength,
as
she
is
its
solace;
that
he
should
be
its
wisdom,
as
she
is
its
grace;
that
he
should
be
its
mind,
its
impetus,
and
its
courage,
as
she
is
its
sentiment,
its
charm,
and
its
consolation.
Too
great
an
amelioration
could
not
be
effected,
in
our
opinion,
in
the
system
generally
adopted,
which,
far
from
correcting
or
even
compensating
the
presumed
intellectual
inequality
of
the
two
sexes,
generally
serves
only
to
increase
it.
By
placing,
for
example,
dancing
and
needle-work
at
the
extreme
poles
of
female
study,
the
one
for
its
attraction
and
the
other
for
its
utility,
and
by
not
filling
the
immense
interval
with
anything
more
valuable
than
mere
monotonous,
imperfect,
superficial,
and
totally
unphilosophical
notions,
this
system
has
made
of
the
greater
number
of
female
seminaries,
establishments
which
may
be
compared
alike
to
nursery-grounds
for
coquettes
and
sempstresses.
It
is
never
remembered
that
in
domestic
life
conversation
is
of
more
importance
than
the
needle
or
choregraphy;
that
a
husband
is
neither
a
pacha
nor
a
lazzarone,
who
must
be
perpetually
intoxicated
or
unceasingly
patched;
that
there
are
upon
the
conjugal
dial
many
long
hours
of
calm
intimacy,
of
cool
contemplation,
of
cold
tenderness;
and
that
the
husband
makes
another
home
elsewhere
if
his
own
hearth
offers
him
only
silence;
or
what
is
a
hundred
times
worse,
merely
frivolous
and
monotonous
discourse.
Let
the
woman
play
the
gossip
at
a
given
moment,
that
is
all
very
well;
let
her
superintend
the
laundry
or
the
kitchen
at
another,
that
is
also
very
well;
but
these
duties
only
comprise
two-thirds
of
her
mission.
Ought
care
not
to
be
taken
that
during
the
rest
of
her
time
she
could
also
be
capable
of
becoming
to
her
husband
a
rational
friend,
a
cheerful
partner,
an
interesting
companion,
or,
at
least,
an
efficient
listener,
whose
natural
intelligence,
even
if
originally
inferior
to
his
own,
shall,
by
the
help
of
education,
have
been
raised
to
the
same
level!
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