make themselves best loved; and the best loved are the most loving. When there is question of moral and religious truth, above all of wisdom and goodness, the surest appeal is through the heart to the mind. But the heart can be touched only by those who have a heart. If we would lead men to love God, we ourselves must love them and Him. Education when given by the vain and conceited but inspires a more insidious kind of self-love, whereas its true end is to make us understand and feel that it is only when we lose sight of ourselves in the pursuit of what is greater than we, of what is eternally right and fair, that we enter on the way that leads to a high and blessed life. "The entire object of education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice."
Madam Barat used to say to her mistresses that to become a stream one must first be a fountain head. We can give but what we have, and, in the deepest sense, we can teach but what we love. Is it credible that they who work for money should do more perfect work and be made thereby more perfect than they who work for truth and love? The ideal which our striving and yearnings have made living within us stamps itself on the minds and hearts of those whom we influence. The life we lead, vastly more than the words we speak, makes us centers of light and force. Wherever there is a deeply religious spirit, there is a sanctuary; wherever there is a high and luminous soul, there is a school. Of the living the living are born,—like of like.
The world in which woman's being may unfold itself is widening and deepening. For her, too, henceforth the career is open to talent. She may do whatever high or fair or useful thing she can make herself to do. She, like man, has the right to gain a livelihood, and the nobler right to live in ever-broadening spheres of religious, moral and intellectual sympathy and influence. In her education, therefore, there should be no lack of thoroughness, no showy superficiality, no excessive attention to mere accomplishments. She must be led into deep and serious subjects; her heart
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