"America is another name for opportunities.

Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race." Never before were there such grand openings, such chances, such opportunities.

Especially is this true for girls and young women.

A new era is dawning for them.
Hundreds of occupations and professions, which were closed to them only a few years ago, are now inviting them to enter.
We can not all of us perhaps make great discoveries like Newton, Faraday, Edison, and Thompson, or paint immortal pictures like an Angelo or a Raphael.

But we can all of us make our lives sublime, by _seizing common occasions and making them great_.