That they have not sufficient physical strength is the intention of nature; that they are deficient in mental energy is the defect of education.

I trust, therefore, that no offence will be assumed where no blame is attached.
It has been a point much disputed, whether there be really an original and intrinsic difference in the mental powers of the two sexes, and it has been of course differently decided by the respective disputants.
With this I shall have nothing to do; but these things are certain; that the minds of _both_ are capable of much greater activity and more important results than have been generally supposed; and that whilst education has not done what it ought for man, it has done far less for woman.

This it is, then, which affords an additional argument in my mind for a master and a mistress.

For let it not be imagined, that I would dismiss women altogether from the system--that I think them useless or even dispensable in an infant school.

If, indeed, one or the other _must_ be done without, and I had my choice, I should certainly give my voice for a woman; but to carry the system into full effect requires _both_.