For Nations are but the outcomes of Homes, and Peoples of Mothers.
But while it is certain that the character of a nation will be elevated by the enlightenment and refinement of woman, it is much more than doubtful whether any advantage is to be derived from her entering into competition with man in the rough work of business and polities.

Women can no more do men's special work in the world than men can do women's.
And wherever woman has been withdrawn from her home and family to enter upon other work, the result has been socially disastrous.

Indeed, the efforts of some of the best philanthropists have of late years been devoted to withdrawing women from toiling alongside of men in coalpits, factories, nailshops, and brickyards.
It is still not uncommon in the North for the husbands to be idle at home, while the mothers and daughters are working in the factory; the result being, in many cases, an entire subversion of family order, of domestic discipline, and of home rule.

[1121] And for many years past, in Paris, that state of things has been reached which some women desire to effect amongst ourselves.

The women there mainly attend to business--serving the BOUTIQUE, or presiding at the COMPTOIR--while the men lounge about the Boulevards.