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be Cultivated 22-40
Lecture Three.
DRESS.
Religion and Dress--Variety in Nature--Dress should not be
Injurious--Present Customs Unhealthy, Slovenly, and Immodest--A
Subject of Religious Consideration--Suicide vs. Providence--Foolish
Vanity--Taste an Element of Mind--Dress should be
Symbolical--Woman should Elevate her Aims--Appropriate Dress
Admirable 41-57

Lecture Four.
FASHION.
Fashion made Superior to Health--Fashionable
Religion--Unfashionable Ministers--Votaries of Fashion Despise
it--Fashionable Women Short-lived--Mothers of Great Men
Unfashionable--Woman's Greatness shown in Offspring--Example of
Women of Fashion--Apostrophe to Fashion--Appeal to American
Women--Nature in Freedom's Temple--Fashion is
Monotonous--Woman needs more Freedom 58-72
Lecture Five.
EDUCATION.
Life a School--Education a Work of Progress--Schools of Vice--Every
Circumstance a Teacher--Kinds of Education--Female Education--True
Womanly Ambition--Improve your Opportunities--Principles should be
Understood--Time Trifled Away--Some Excuses--Society Needs
Woman's Influence--Education as it is--Girls should have Something to
Live For 73-87
Lecture Six.
PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT.
Natural Position of Woman--Relations of Body and Mind--Sound
Minds only in Sound Bodies--To be Healthy is a Duty--Physical Laws
Obligatory--Penalties for Violation--Girls and their
Grandmothers--Causes of Difference--Physiological Studies
Advised--Women the "Weaker Vessel;" Why?--Intelligence and
Beauty--Woman's Sound Judgment--Woman's Mind not
Powerless--Finished Educations--Education at Home--Schools only
Helps to Education--Woman's Thought Wanted 88-105
Lecture Seven.

MORAL AND SOCIAL CULTURE.
Woman Judges by Impressions--Mental Powers should
Harmonize--Effects of Different Culture--Male and Female Minds
Differ--The Female Mind Analyzed--Feminine Purity--Woman's
Benevolence--The Sentiment of Duty--Integrity in Woman--Cultivate
Regard for Truth--Piety the Crown of Moral Virtues--Cultivation of
Piety Urged--Development of Social Nature--Friendship and Love
106-121
Lecture Eight.
EMPLOYMENT.
Employment a Duty--Powers Developed by Labor--All Females are not
Women--Dependence Usually Ignoble--Adversity gives Strength--Girls
should have Trades--Self-reliance necessary to Women--Do Something
and Be Something--Riches no Excuse for Idleness--Employment gives
Activity and Strength--Labor considered Vulgar--Life is given for
Employment--Woman was Made for Usefulness 122-135
Lecture Nine.
HOME.
Maternal Love--Ideas of Future Home Universal--Heaven's Home
Perfected--Home the Garden of Virtue--Home Influence
Permanent--Home is Woman's World--Place does not constitute
Home--Our Homes will be like us--Home a Sensitive Place--Home
Habits Second Nature 136-147
Lecture Ten.
THE RELATIONS AND DUTIES OF YOUNG WOMEN TO
YOUNG MEN.
The Primary Principles of Being--Life is full of Solemnities--Influence
of the Sexes--Influence depends on Culture--Men Reverence Female

Worth--Much Influence is directly Evil--Woman should demand
Morality--Errors of Society--The Sexes too much Separated--Equality
of Moral Standards--Female Encouragement and Counsel--Time
Trifled, Worse than Lost 148-160
Lecture Eleven.
MARRIAGE.
Unhappy Marriages--Marriage has its Laws--The Second Question in
Life--Be sure you are Right--For Better or for Worse--Know whom
thou Marriest--Marriage a Holy Institution--Marriage should be made a
Study--Marriage is not for Children--Early Marriages
Inadvisable--What are Early Marriages?--Influence of an Ignorant
Wife--Woman the Hope of the World--Married Life must be lived
well--Love should rule all 161-176
Lecture Twelve.
RELIGIOUS DUTIES.
Our Father in Heaven--Moral Obligations and Religious
Duties--Impiety of Professed Christians--Deficiency of Religious
Gratitude--Gratitude makes Life Cheerful--Religion gives Joy to
Life--Love, the Seed of Religion--The Religion of Christ--Woman's
Heart a Natural Shrine--Religion fit for all Conditions--Love for the
Unseen--Personal Acquaintance not necessary for Love--The Idea of
God Spontaneous--It is the Unseen we Love--Life well lived is
Glorious 177-191
Lecture Thirteen.
WOMANHOOD.
Woman not an Adornment only--Civilization Elevates
Woman--Woman not what She should be--Woman's Influence
Over-rated--Force of Character Necessary--The Virtue of True
Womanhood--Passion is not always Love--True Love is only for

Worth--Good Behavior and Deportment--Spiritual Harmony
Desirable--Importance of Self-control--What shall Woman do--Strive
to be a True Woman 192-204
Lecture Fourteen.
HAPPINESS.
Happiness Desired--Fretful People--Motes in the Eye--We Were Made
for Happiness--Sorrow has Useful Lessons--Happiness a
Duty--Despondency Is Irreligious--Pleasure not always Happiness--The
Misuse of the World--Contentment necessary to Happiness--Happiness
must be sought aright--Truly seeking we shall Find--Our Success not
always Essential--Happiness often Found Unexpectedly--Happiness
overcomes Circumstances--A Tendency to Murmuring--God Rules
over All--Health necessary to Happiness--Disease is Sinful--God Loves
a Happy Soul--Happiness Possible to All 205-224

AIMS AND AIDS.

Lecture One.
GIRLHOOD.
Angels view Girlhood with Solicitude and Delight--Beauty no
perpetual Pledge of Safety--Nothing in Man or Things impels a
provident Regard for it--Blossoming Womanhood an Object of deep
Interest and Pity--Girlhood's first Work is to Form a Character--It
should be Pure and Energetic--Woman only a Thing--Her Education
progressing--Physical Health should be Preserved--A Woman not
Herself Without Physical Strength--Woman must be Independent, and
Earn her own Livelihood--Character must Embody Itself In an Outward
Form to be of Service to the World.
If the angels look down upon earth and behold any natural object with

especial delight, it must be Girlhood. And yet if they are not gifted with
prophetic vision, they must tremble with fearful solicitude while they
gaze delighted. There is a fearfulness in the beauty of Girlhood which
mingles anxiety in the cup of admiration. No good being can look upon
it without casting a solicitous thought forward to its future, to ask
whether it will be well or ill with it. The beauty of Girlhood is no
perpetual pledge of its safety. Society has built no wall of protection
around it. It has no sure defense within itself. Its Maker has hung no
flaming sword turning every way