A system of male education, such as I have attempted to describe, must of course require a peculiar system for females; but as female education is every where much more matter of fact than of philosophy, it would be improper to go into any investigation or argument about it. In speaking of such a subject, I might err: by remaining silent, I cannot.
CHAPTER X.
MANNERS AND RELIGION OF THE ATHENS.
“This present world six days they seek,
They seek the next for one day:
They run their scores up all the week,
And sponge them out on Sunday.”