went along, had taken up the undertaking as a temporary matter only, and had been carried on by the interest with which it inspired her, and by her own evident adaptation to the work.
The use of her example is not in its being followed implicitly or foolishly, but in the help it gives to all women who dare.
When Margaret Fuller, in answer to a question from one who wished to set limits to the sphere of women, answered, Let them be sea-captains, if yon will, she did not foresee that Captain Betsey Miller, of the bark Cleotus, would erelong be doing the very thing which she had selected at random as an extreme instance.
One of the very functions which have been oftenest named as beyond the natural gift of woman has been the superintendence of a large manufacturing establishment, involving as it does three separate faculties — a knowledge of machinery, a business aptitude, and the capacity to control men. Yet here these three qualities have been combined, and have been tested by succe
Also 13, 263.
martyrdom, Mice and, 141.
Matchin, Maud, 103, 104.
Mather, Cotton, quoted, 252.
Matthews, Brander, 171.
Mazare, Prince, 160.
Mazzili, Giuseppe, 129, 309.
Mellin's Food, 265.
men, the nervousness of, 238.
men's novels and women's novels, 156.
Mendelssohn, B. F., 15.
Mendelssohn, Fanny, musical compositions of, 15, 251.
Meretricious, origin of the word, 10.
Mericourt, Theroigne de, 236.
Mice and martyrdom, 141.
Michigan University, 287.
Miller, Captain, Betsey, 211.
Millet, J. F., 194.
Milton, John, 19, 285.
Minerva, 45.
Miranda, 102, 103.
Missionaries, 236.
Moliere, J. B., 87.
Moore, Thomas, quoted, 19, 278.
Mopsa, 102.
Moral equivalence of sexes, 91.
more thorough work visible, 286.
Morse, S. F. B., 99.
mother, on one's Relationship to one's, 43.
Mott, Lucretia, 47, 179.
Muller, Max, 26.
Murfree, M. N., 225, 259, 263.
musical woman, The Missing, 249.
N.
Napoleon. See Bonaparte.
Napoleon, Louis, 1
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