'True.' Further, a distinction should be made between the melodies of men and women.

Nature herself teaches that the grand or manly style should be assigned to men, and to women the moderate and temperate.

So much for the subjects of education.

But to whom are they to be taught, and when?
I must try, like the shipwright, who lays down the keel of a vessel, to build a secure foundation for the vessel of the soul in her voyage through life.

Human affairs are hardly serious, and yet a sad necessity compels us to be serious about them.
Let us, therefore, do our best to bring the matter to a conclusion.
'Very good.' I say then, that God is the object of a man's most serious endeavours.