ABSTRACT
EDjfllabwoman', Ilnt ... ] Deoember IStb. 117e. Women's Congress. 541
women to soientifio study on aooount of its outward utility; at best its wages to-day are little above thQse of manual labour, and were they those of royal revenues, I should still raise the objeotion that it is an ignoble following of nature, whioh looks for gain. But, for themselves, for young women who have a love of nature and a longing to study her laws, how shall the taste be developed and how shall they be enoouraged 1 • • • Th.e laws of nature are not disoovered by aooidenttheories do not oome by chanoe, even to the greatest minds; they are not bOrn of the hurry and worry of daily toil; they are diligently sought, they are patiently waited for, they are received with cautious reserve, they are aooepted with reverence and awe. And until able women liave given their lives to investigation, it is idle to disouss the question of their oapaoity for original work."
