Oh, I tell you that you are losing sight of your first duty.

There are people enough to act the good Samaritan; _you_ have quite another task in life.

It is your work to train and encourage girls in a path as far as possible from that of the husband-hunter.

Let them marry later, if they must; but at all events you will have cleared their views on the subject of marriage, and put them in a position to judge the man who offers himself.

You will have taught them that marriage is an alliance of intellects--not a means of support, or something more ignoble still.
But to do this with effect you must show yourself relentless to female imbecility.