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and predictions of the busy prophetess. She quits the || she can bring the lightning from the thunder cloud, narrow sphere of prejudice and passion, and is borne and play familiar with that fluid, which spreads its teraloft, by the impulses of a new and sublime life, to a rific agencies over the empire of matter. With the loftier theatre, where a range opens up adequate to the astronomer she can scale the heavens, scrutenize the aspirings of a nobler spirit. She watches the tide of vastness of other planets, examine their relations, their emigration that rolls over the land-contemplates distances, their courses, their satellites, with all their the rising grandeur of her country-meditates upon influences upon this globe of ours, and all the glories the enlarged plans of philanthropy and religion-un- of their being-in a word, it is her privilege and high rolls the map of the world, and, as from an observa- prerogative to gaze with rapture and delight upon all tory, looks abroad upon the various moral conflicts that is grand, beautiful, and picturesque in that temple which are agitating its interests-sees kingdoms rising in which she worships and adores. Nor is this all. and falling-scans the discoveries of science-surveys The spirit of religion, ever the kind attendant and those moral enterprises which are spreading the bright-handmaid of true science, will lead her "through naness of a better day around the depravity and darkness ture up to nature's God." As her mind expands with of earth's multitudes, and in the spirit and practice of the splendors of the material universe, her heart will be a kind instructress, interprets to her family and friends taught to feel the holiest impress of that love which plantthe varied signs of the times, and the mighty events ed the stars in the firmament; and as she looks abroad, which cluster around the movements of the age. Nor "She calls the beauteous scenery all her own; is she confined to the present in the sources of her gratHers are the mountains, and the valleys hers, And the resplendent rivers hers to enjoy, ification; for the same power which confers the priviWith a propriety which none can feel, lege of a delightful participation in the movements of But who, with filial confidence inspired, this age, lifts the curtains which shroud the past from Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, view, and secures a rich inheritance in its choicest posAnd, smiling, say, My father made them all.", sessions. The scenes of other days rise at the bidding Let us briefly inquire what ought to be the kind and of her will, and memory throws them before her vision. || character of female education. We need not now disShe walks over the ground consecrated by the deeds of cuss the question of the comparative intellect of the divinity, and the announcement of eternal life to fallen sexes. A century or two ago it might have been humanity-visits every spot hallowed by interesting || doubted whether the female possessed a capacity for associations; and as she marks the traces of mighty high intellectual and moral cultivation. Then she events and ancient glory, the illustrious dead of centu-appeared but as a twinkling star above the horizon. ries troop up before her, and alike rivet the steady gaze Education, however, has since borne her up to midand warm emotion of her enraptured intellect and heaven, and she now shines with as rich a lustre as heart. Conducted by the same kind patroness, she any of the kindred orbs which spangle the literary firvisits the land of story and of song-stands amid the mament. The bow that God set in the cloud is not a ruins of that architectural magnificence which has clearer token of his covenant with his people, than are given immortality to the genius of antiquity-looks at the results of female intellect, that he stamped upon the grove where Socrates breathed his lessons of phi- || male and female the same moral and intellectual image. losophy-glances her eye over the scenery which once We are formed for different spheres of action by the surrounded the masters of oratory and poetry, and same Providence which "bids the oak brave the fury moves over the plains where once assembled the wis- of the tempest, and the Alpine flower lean its cheek dom of the world, and where was exhibited the daring on the bosom of eternal snows." This very variety, and devotion of the first-born of freemen. In a word, so far from being any evidence of inferiority, is one memory spreads before her delighted view the grand of the strongest proofs of his wisdom, who adapts panorama of sixty centuries, and enables her to thread intellect to the purposes of his varied empire-who its mighty events, and to commune with those who qualifies a Newton to scan the mysteries of science, participated in its loftiest deeds. Who doubts the and a Hannah More to unfold the love and excellence importance of preparing the mind for the luxury of of his moral government. such entertainment? But science unseals still richer We have already glanced at the duties and responsifountains of pleasure. She walks abroad upon the||bilities of the female, and we will, incidentally, discuss earth, and nature, as by enchantment, throws open the gates of the vast temple of the universe, and admits her an interested spectator of its profound mysteries. To her eye are unfolded all the varied phenomena of One of these is a disproportionate attention to what matter. She knows how the air bears to her the tones are termed the "fine arts and accomplishments." Do of music, and the melodies of ten thousand voices, and not accuse us of underrating these branches of study, how light diffuses joy over animate and inanimate cre- or of being too cold-hearted to appreciate the charms ation. With Newton, she can admire its nature and with which they invest the educated female. Music, results in the rainbow, which bespangles the vault of drawing, &c., added to the acquisitions of an intellect heaven, and in the telescope, by which other worlds enriched by substantial literature and science, are as are brought to move before her eyes. With Franklin, || admirable as the dome, the portico, or the alcove, adorn

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ing the splendid edifice. The original and proper object || general, would be surpassed by the attainments of a of these studies ought to be to decorate solid and use- common school boy." To be an educated lady in the ful attainments-as rich drapery for the magnificent Dean's day, was to be qualified to whirl gracefully saloon-carved work for the gigantic column, or rich through the mazes of the ball-room, to strut the adapparel for the majestic form; but in the perversion of mired, in form and fashion, of every circle-to shroud this object, in fashionable education, we frequently find the simplicity of a generous nature in the tawdry tapesthe ornament without the mind-the drapery of the||try of art, and to substitute the graces of person for the palace hung around the kitchen-the fretted work upon enduring embellishments of a cultivated intellect. An the hewn log, and apparel befitting queens overshadow-educated lady, at the present day, presents a more intering dwarfs. We cannot better describe this system of esting spectacle of contemplation; and whenever the education, than by adopting, with one or two excep- system of study shall be so improved as to give the tions, the picture as drawn by an eminent lady- cultivation of the mind more prominence than the cul"See Bulwer and Scott laid out on the laptivation of the manners, she will then ascend to the Then dancing springs up and skips into a gapfull exercise of that power which is to usher in a Next drawing, with all its varieties, come, brighter day for human hope and energy. We would Laid down in their place by the finger and thumb; not be understood as even insinuating that the error and And then, for completing her fanciful robes, Geography, music, and a look at the globes, its consequences are to be charged upon the female. And so forth, and so forth, which match as they will, No; the blame must rest upon an erroneous public Are sown into shape, and set down in the bill. sentiment, which has controlled her education. FeThus science, distorted, and torn into bits, Art, tortured and frightened half out of her witsmales have been taught that it was not their province In portions and patches, some light and some shady, to survey the empire of God-scale the heights of sciAre stitched up together and make a fine lady." ence-regale themselves in the fields of literature, or Unpopular as the charge may be, it is nevertheless be equal participants in the privileges of nature's vast true, that there has been more effort, among those who and magnificent temple. No; the mount of science, have supervised and controlled the education of the like Mt. Sinai to the Israelites, has been guarded against female, to clothe her with light and gaudy wing, to their approach, "lest they should break through to float sportively through the under-current of thought, gaze;" and the command has been, "Take heed to than to invest her with strong and steady pinions with yourselves, that ye go not up to the Mount, or touch which she might boldly soar to the loftiest heights of the borders of it." They have been told, in great conintellectual attainment. Is it not the fact that educa- descension, that they may pluck the flowers which ted ladies are more prone to exhibit their specimens of beskirts the borders of the fields of literature, and play painting, or their proficiency and skill in music, than to the harp or thread the organ for the man-worshipers in unfold those beauties and curiosities which they have nature's temple; and yet the task-master has asked gathered in the empire of science, and to discuss those them, "Where are your gems of science, and garlands prominent subjects of philosophy whose wonders are of literature?" and coolly said, as the task-masters of the glory of the universe, and whose results and appli- Pharaoh, "Ye are idle, ye are idle." "Go, therefore, to cations are mingled with the daily duties, employments, work, for there shall no straw be given you; yet ye and enjoyments of life? Yes, so popular and absorb-shall deliver the tale of the brick." Thanks to the ing is this phrensy for accomplishments, that the little redeeming spirit of the age, a better sentiment is now miss who has scarcely reached baker or crucifix, flutters warming the hearts and inspiring the thoughts of manwith restless desire to seize the paint-brush, or play the kind. The female is now being taught that her life is piano; and if she is even told that there are useful stu- to be something higher than a school of pasteboard padies first to be attended to, it is more than probable that geantry-"a court where fashion and folly are presishe will overcome the tender-hearted parent, by the pre-ding deities." She now learns that a higher destiny vailing argument, that “them things are not for ladies awaits her, than merely to tickle the ear and please the to study." I ask, in the language of an eminent author-eye of creation's lord-"to adjust the toilet-project ess, is it right that "what relates to the body and the dresses-study colors-assort ribbons-mingle floworgans of the body, I mean those accomplishments ers-choose feathers," and the sound of the psaltery, which address themselves to the eye and ear, should harp, and all kinds of music, like the subjects of Neoccupy almost the whole thoughts; while the intellec-buchadnezzar, fall down and worship fashion's golden tual part is robbed of its due proportion, and the spir-image. itual part has almost no proportion at all?" It is this She now studies, as if the immortal mind and the error in education which has given currency to the false heart, out of which are the issues of life, were her chosentiment that the mind of woman is incapable of grasp sen possessions-contemplates the nature and destiny ing profound or lofty subjects of thought-that her in- of that immortal guest whose home is in her own botellectual structure is not framed upon that broad and som-scrutinizes its powers-cherishes its lofty aspimagnificent scale which adjust the proportions of the rations, and admires its achievements. She follows the temple of true genius. It is the same error which led range of this intellect, as it traces the wonders of nasuch a man as Dean Swift to blunder on the opinion|ture's wide domain-unrolls the map marked with the "that after all their attempts at learning, women, indeeds of Providence and the doings of the illustrious

dead-unlocks the portals of the future, and, as with a || tain springs, are pure as the mountain air that plays prophet's pencil, describes, in characters of living fire, above them. Every spot upon which my eye rested, those mighty themes which swell the song and enrap-recalled some memorable hour, which, though itself ture the powers of angelic mind. Aye, more-enrich- lost in the tide of time, had left its impress so fully ed with these acquisitions, she goes to the social circle, upon my heart, that every feature could be distinctly and the kindled eye, attentive ear, and awakened intel- recognized. Again the friends of my youth sported lect, greet her approach, and wait on her ministrations-about me in joyous glee-I heard their bursting laughvisits the hut of poverty, and the bounding heart pro- ter, and looked upon their merry faces, and amid the claims her errand, and the little wilderness, by the force living visions of fancy, I almost forgot that "years had of her kindness, begins to bloom. Yes, she may now || rolled between," bearing on their dark waves sorrow be contemplated in the still loftier attitude of a mission- and death. Roused to recollection, I asked, where are ary of literature and religion. Many of the educated they? and from the cities of the dead a voice answered, daughters of Zion, animated with a zeal which diffi- where! culties cannot conquer, nor disappointments crush, have pledged their all for the world's redemption; and they may now be seen communing with the desolate child of superstition, on the dark borders of our continent-threading the rivers and scaling the mountains of Hindostan-treading with noiseless and timid steps the gloomy coasts of Africa, and riding on the surging billows to the lone isles of the sea. Thus may and does the educated lady of the nineteenth century live, at home and abroad, a visitant angel of her species; and when she dies, her memory will be identified with the moral grandeur of the age, and enshrined in the tears and pure recollections of the virtuous of all ages-gotten. It is profane to awaken the faults, as it is a prouder mausoleum than that of marble.

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REMINISCENCES.

Where are the elves that our childhood caress'd,
And the friends that in girlhood attended our way?
They are gone like the bubble on ocean's rough breast-
Like the mists of the morning they're vanished away.

In the old burying-ground I found the graves of my parents. Side by side they sleep in that sequestered spot, to me more dear than all the abodes of the living. To speak of them were useless. Those who have read on the cold grave-stone the names of father and mother, can appreciate my feelings-those who have not, could not understand me should I attempt to describe them.

Of my friends few remain, with whom, in the morning of life, I mingled my griefs and pleasures; and while I am in this strain of musing, I will sketch what is perhaps more interesting to me than it will be to the reader-the history of some of the buried, but not for

painful to recall the sorrows of the dead. I will speak, therefore, of the lovely and the happy.

Harriette was my companion, till, arrived at mature age, I took my departure for a distant clime. Intelligent and affectionate, she was admired and loved, though not remarkable for any exterior grace. Even now I seem to sit with her on the green hill-side where we plucked the meadow violet and dandelion, to form our rich boquets, and watched the clear spring brook at our feet, as it danced and sparkled in the sunlight, and presented to our infant fancy cataracts more inter"THE scenes of my childhood!" With what mel-esting than Niagara itself. At the age of twenty years ody do these words fall on the ear of the lone wan- H. became the victim of consumption. She had not derer from home, at the age of forty years! How ||been religiously educated; but pleasure seemed not to many hallowed recollections of parents, brothers, and sisters, and friends, and of joyous moments, unmixed with care, do they awaken! Looking back from this distance, no thorn grows upon the soil that was pressed beneath our infant footsteps-no cloud rests upon the sky that smiled over our childish delights. The meadows were greener, and the flowers sweeter than Ella was my class-mate. Like Timothy, she had they now are, after all that we have learned of hues known the holy Scriptures from a child. At the age and odors; and the stars of heaven sparkled with a of seven years she became wise unto salvation, and brighter lustre when we knew not but they were (in from that period till her death, at twenty-two, she the language of the little girl) "gimblet holes to let retained the "witness of the Spirit," and lived a bright the glory through," than they do now, after all that example of the power of grace. We seldom visited we have been told of their magnitude and majesty. but prayer was proposed, and it was often my privilege These scenes are not dear to us in proportion as they to witness the fervent outpourings of her heart. Even are beautiful; but when the charms of nature are com- our hours of recess at school were rendered sacred by bined with those of association, the intensity of inter-devotion, while the silent groves were our temples, and est is greatly increased. the winds wafted our orisons to heaven. The close of

have taken so strong a hold upon her as upon many others. She sought and found the Savior. I was told that her last days were indescribably blissful, the love of Jesus bearing her above her sufferings, and his name filling her with rapture as often as it was repeated in her hearing.

It was recently my privilege to re-visit my native her life was attended with extreme pain, but religion home. It is a delightful vale, quite environed by hills, sustained her, and she was enabled, in moments of and watered by streams, which flowing from moun-keenest anguish, to choose the will of her heavenly

Father. Her final conflict was severe; but leaning her || happiness might she have enjoyed! how many might head upon the bosom of Jesus, she died exulting in she have rescued from the snare of the fowler! the assurance of a blissful eternity.

She was a favorite with all. She had suffered conviction of sin, and had attached herself to the WE have abundant cause of thanksgiving to God Church; but the fascinations of gay life were too pow-for his goodness to us, as manifested in the changing erful for her firmness, and she was religious without seasons, and can exclaim with rapture, in the language the comforts of religion. With her face turned toward of the poet, Zion, she wandered amidst the mazes of the world. Pledging her heart to God, she still yielded it to pleas- But while spring, summer and autumn, each in its turn ure. Violating conscience and grieving the Holy Spir- proclaim the wisdom and beneficence of our Creator, it-resolving, yet lingering, she went on till disease winter seems most favorable for reflection and improveassailed her, and with scarcely time to cast herself on ment. The trees, indeed, are stripped of their foliage; the mercy of Heaven, she was hurried to eternity. the streams are bound in icy fetters; bleak winds sweep My heart was pained as I contemplated the issue of around our dwellings; but within, around the blazing such a life. I could not yield to the apprehension that fire, may be thankful hearts and happy voices. When M. was lost; but if, perchance, she was saved, how the labors of the day are past, and the long night comes much holier might she have been! how much more lon, it is, to parents especially, the golden opportunity

for the inculcation of moral truth, and giving bent to the intellectual and moral powers of their children.

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

BY PROFESSOR MERRICK.

MAN.

His

The cultivation of the intellect and affections should be inseparably connected; for the noble energies with which we are endowed, are only productive of happiness when employed in virtuous pursuits. On whom MAN stands at the head of the animal kingdom. rest the responsibility of the proper direction of these superiority to all other animals is obvious in his physipowers? On the teachers to whom we commit the cal, and in a still greater degree, in his mental constituyouth of our land? No. They are but auxiliaries- tion. He is properly styled, "lord of the lower world." often powerful it is true; but it is in the sanctuary of Under all his various modifications he is but of one spehome, under parental influence, the child is to be train-cies, though divided into several races, or varieties. As ed in the way he should go. to the number of races, a great diversity of opinion has The parent can call many auxiliaries to his aid, and existed among naturalists. Linnæus referred all the one of the most important is to be found in well select-|| human family to five; Cuvier admitted but three; while ed books. And how can we more profitably employ Malta Brun recognizes sixteen. The arrangement of the winter evenings than in a course of useful reading? Blumenbach, however, is now generally adopted. He Let the subject we read be the theme of conversation. has five varieties; viz., the Caucasian, Mongolian, EthioLet the standard of parents in mental and moral excel-pian, American, and Malayan. The following descriplence be high, and a proper direction to the talents of tion of these several varieties or races, is from Dr. youth will be given, by the most powerful of all teach- Morton's Crania Americana: ing-example. Biography, for the young, has many charms. History will enlarge our views, and free the mind from narrow prejudices. Natural science will open a field for our observation boundless in extent, where we may gaze upon the wonders of creation until we can exultingly exclaim, with the poet above mentioned,

I. THE CAUCASIAN RACE is characterized by a naturally fair skin, susceptible of every tint; hair fine, long and curling, and of various colors. The skull is large and oval, and its anterior portion full and elevated. The face is small in proportion to the head, of an oval form, with well proportioned features. The nasal bones are arched, the chin full, and the teeth vertical. The race is distinguished for the facility with which it attains the highest intellectual endowments. This race is sub-divided into the Caucasian, Germanic, Celtic, Arabian, Lybian, Nilotic, (Egyptian,) and Indostanic families.

II. THE MONGOLIAN RACE. This race is charac

"These are thy glorious works, Parent of good." But we need, also, something of a miscellaneous description to revive in our memories the events of the past-to speak to us at the present, as with a living voice to point out our duty, and cheer and animate us in the performance of it-to give to the aged, the middle aged, and the young, their portion in due sea-terized by a sallow or olive colored skin, which appears son (every month.) As a desideratum, therefore, we hail the "Ladies' Repository, and Gatherings of the West." We welcome it with joy, as a New-Year's gift. We still bid it welcome, as a faithful friend and counselor. We welcome it as the "gatherer," whose rich gleanings shall give a new interest to "home, sweet home," on a winter's evening.

L. E. A.

FILIAL LOVE. THE love of parents may be considered the law of human nature. In most bosoms the affection is as spontaneous as the pulsations of the heart. From this fact arises our horror of the crime of parricide, which is reckoned the most aggravated offense within the power of fallen man.

to be drawn tight over the bones of the face; long, black, straight hair, and thin beard. The nose is broad and short; the eyes are small, black, and obliquely placed, and the eye-brows arched and linear; the lips are turned, the cheek-bones broad and flat, and the zygomatic arches salient. The skull is oblong-oval, somewhat flattened at the sides, with a low forehead. In their intellectual character, the Mongolians are ingenious, imitative, and highly susceptible of cultivation. The subdivisions are the Mongol-Tartar, Turkish, Chinese, Indo-Chinese, and the Polar families.

III. THE MAYLAY RACE. This is characterized by a dark complexion, varying from a tawny hue to a very dark brown. Their hair is black, coarse, and lank, and their eye-lids are drawn obliquely upwards at the outer angles. The mouth and lips are large, and the nose is Filial fidelity is, in some instances, instinctive with short and broad, and apparently broken at its root. The brutes. The stork is an example. Its Hebrew name face is flat and expanded, the upper jaw projecting, and signifies mercy, and indicates its attachment for its dam, the teeth salient. The skull is high and squared, or which it will guard and cherish at the sacrifice of life. rounded, and the forehead low and broad. This race The Romans are said to have called it avis pia, or the is active and ingenuous, and possesses all the habits of pious bird. Sometimes it was denominated pietatis a migratory, predaceous, and maritime people. The cultrix; i. e., one that cherishes or cultivates piety. || sub-divisions embrace the Maylay and Polynesian (or Thus does the Almighty provide, that irrational tribes South Sea Island) families. shall admonish us of our duty, and shame us into the practice of virtue.

IV. THE AMERICAN RACE is marked by a brown complexion, long, lank, black hair, and deficient beard.