ABSTRACT
The Briti8h Lightfoot, too, haB for yearR insisted on rnnning with half his strength only. He built and endowed magnificent scho018, and sellt boys only to study tbere, keepingtbeir sisters at horne to make puddings, play the piano, and da fancy work. He entrusted his bealth to one 1earned profession, his wealth to another, and his conscience to a third; but no woman might add to her instinctive skill and delicacy of touch the scientific knowledge that would elevate her nur$ing; no womall's footfall migbt echo in bis law-courts, unless indeed as a prisoner; no wornan was permitted t.o teach loving lessons of religion or morality ft'om pulPlt
EDgli~11woman" ReVieW] Inc1'ease o~ National Strength. 291 July 15th, 1881. 'J o(Jf platform. Re built prisons and poorhouses, and set men to manage them, and they multiplied indefinitely; he put men in the counting-house, on 'Change, in government offices, and gave them the whole business and conduct of the world; and from time to time he shook himself awake to find, on each awakening, that ignorance, drunkenness, pauperism, and vice were on the increase, in spite of his enormOU8 material prosperity. And he wondered, when he saw the plains over-ripe for harvest, where an the hands were to co me from to gather it in. In an the work he had to do he ignored the great furce that was lying unused at home, the idle hands, and vacant minds, and hnngering hearte which needed work to fill them, aud to which that work was denied. .
