ABSTRACT
Female education, a subject of such commanding importance, that it requires the head of a politician and legislator to do it justice. The rapid spread of intellectual improvement during the last twenty years, is surely encouraging to anyone willing to enter upon the task of its increased advancement; and it is the first argument in soliciting attention to the idea of an association of female seminaries. Physics, it is true, is free from many difficulties which obstruct our progress in moral and political inquiries; but, perhaps, this advantage may be more than counterbalanced, by the tendency they have to engage a more universal, and a more earnest attention, in consequence of their coming home more immediately to our ‘business and our bosoms’. Many of the precepts of the sacred writings have been imbibed by our populace, without any knowledge of the relation in which they stand to other parts of the Holy Scriptures.
