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Show Sri In Kilur.illon. Wk find that the female pupils under Identical school conditions begin at the earliest age( to excel; we And that this BUporlorlty,uot so strongly marked In tbe lower classes, become so noticeable notice-able In tbe higher as to ba absolutely surprising; wu find that not only are the girls surerlor on the enrage, but that the smartest girls arc, In amarked degree, superior to tbe emirteat boys, and that the dullest girls are leaa dull than the dullest boys. Certainly, no one who hi even the rudiments of arithmetical reason can say otherwise than that, at least In school life, tho female Is very much supetlor to the male. II. Clllk-SR Maodomalu. Tbo science ol Iho mind bsi not yelndrnnoed fir enough to give us exact methods of measuring, facublea, still It has been shown beyond the possibility possi-bility of doubt thst while, certain faculties are stronger In man than In woman, others are stronger In woman Ibau In man. It follow that tbe mlud of man 1 more adapted to aome kind of activity than that of women, and ttceieria. Hence It I absurd to say that man ha a belter mlud thau woman without adding what It la letur for. It would be llko aaylng that water la belter than air, which Is true with regard to some purposes, and false with regard to others. It would be a far more dignified poaltloii for woman to take, to ceaie measuring herself by lum'i aUudard; to maintain that while there are some things which man can do Utter than she can, there are others which she can do better than he, and that her mental qualities, while not Ihe same, yet are a valuable to the world as his; and then to set about developing her mind In itmwu proper direction lo tbo highest possible degree. 1'. A, Fi.ll.N0LD. t. -fam : The Ideal education, therefore, whither secular or religious, and by whomsoever furnished, should adbero as tlosily ai usslblo lu the family Idea. It should not only recognise recog-nise the wholly dlttlnit needs and tharacttrlstlc of the sexto, but It should also, as far as tassihlc, reoogulxe the distinction oltersonal Ily, aud, with due regard lo those ult-tluctlons, ult-tluctlons, educate the whole mau thu eye and baud and thu conscience, aa well as thu InteJIect and reasoning l-owers. Certainly a merely political philosophy philoso-phy of education must logically result In the social obliteration of sex, In thu gravest wrongs tu women, and In Iho Isst analysis, wiru It iKieallde, In the moral elimination of the family. W. C. Dancido.i. The distinct needa and characteristics of the sexu should be recognised, and woman'a actual auterlortty orer man In the possession of facultlee to which man Is a atranger. To her thu rate may look for results aud aclileeeincuta In the exerclae of these faculties, whloh cau Lu derlred from no other scource. It Is a woman'a prerogative to lay the foundation of a world' happlneii, by a hating Impreasupontbecoffifr.wblrh ahull only bo loa; sight of with the goer. Hutttienurioaud tho nursery are hers, and nouo nan enter ui-on the battletlelJ of life's social, morul, or political arena, without her moulding ILfluence In shaping the character of the mau, and through that character, the destiny of that jieople, nation or race, orer whom he iicrchance may rule, Tho bulldera In their moat !m pnsslre years are under her tuition of akllland trudenre. morality and love, to be displayed to her honor aud fame In their ai tlve arftl heroic life. In thla ahe la foremost aud can "do bettor than he;" and the wldrsiread world may bear the Impress of her aurlerlor mental men-tal qualities lu the education by which she has directed and formed tbe manly mlud. U. W. It. |