The Young Lady S Counsellor

Excerpt from The Young Lady's Counsellor: Or Outlines and Illustrations of the Sphere, the Duties and the Dangers of Young Women The importance of female culture cannot be too highly estimated, especially in this country, where our institutions depend on the virtue of the people. A self-govemed nation must be both intelligent and religious for if a principle of moral restraint dwells not in the breast of a man, he cannot live peacefully in society, without the terror of some external, con straining force. Society must sink into a state of anarchy, from which a relentless despotism will be evolved, unless it feels the moral force of the senti ment of duty. And on what agency are we to de pend for the creation and cultivation of this mighty conservative idea of duty, in the teeming millions of our future population? Are our pulpits and our educational appliances sufficient to accomplish this great work? Nay! That they are indispensable and potent instrumentalities, that they cannot be too highly appreciated or earnestly supported, is freely admitted; but there is A power behind the school-room and the church, which is capable of neutralizing the efforts of both. Maternal influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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