OBSERVATIONS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF FEMALE EDUCATION, AND Maternal Instruction, WITH THEIR Beneficial Enfluence ON SOCIETY. BY A MOTHER. "Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands." "From education, as the leading cause, Proverbs iv. 10. "The public character its colour draws; NEW-YORK: PRINTED AND SOLD BY MAHLON DAY, 0000000 BEING early convinced that many advantages arise from the proper cultivation of the youthful mind, and that pious maternal care is the first step towards its accomplishment, I have occasionally, when reading, selected such sentiments upon education, as accorded with my own. And when a leisure moment has offered, I have also penned some of my own reflections on this interesting subject. Having, by these means, made the following collection, I am induced to lay it before the public, with a hope, that it may, in some degree, promote the cause of virtue. "To those who act from the noble motive of love, and the animating power of the Christian's hope, the exercise is the reward, the permission is the privilege, and the work is the wages." HICKORY GROVE, 1824. A. MOTT. |