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84 BIOGRAPHY.
teach it to think, to hearken to the voice of conscience,
and lead it in the fear of God and love of truth and justice.
I entreated, therefore, Fredrika, who had drawn woman
so beautifully and truly in her proper sphere of activity,
-and who had, by her previous writings, drawn forth the
motherly element in society, to write her new book in the
same spirit, and to teach women to ennoble themselves, to
develop themselves into truly Christian, prudent, clever —
not learned, but enlightened — educators, able to lay the
sure moral foundation on which all education ought to rest,
and which now, in general, is wanting. I owned that more
ways than hitherto of providing honestly for themselves
ought to be made accessible to women with indifferent
capacities, and that the question here had reference only
to women more highly gifted.
Considering Fredrika’s projects impossible to realize, in
a physical as well as a moral and economical point of view,
I asked her to propose, just for these more gifted women,
that they should, several or few of them, unite in estab-
lishing educational institutions for girls in the country, in
the vicinity of towns, where they could remain until their
education was finished, — not in a superficial, frivolous di-
rection, such as now is frequently the case, — but aiming
at their immortal soul’s development in purity and in
Christian spirit, while at the same time they could enjoy
every innocent recreation and amusement, learn practical
utility, and acquire every useful knowledge in languages,
&e., &c.
I proposed that these gifted women should also establish
similar institutions for boys of between six and ten years -
of age, after which time their more learned education be-
gins. During this time the good moral foundation, which
so many children cannot obtain in their parental home or
in ordinary schools, could be laid by these women, through
a guidance which would develop the children into think-
ing, honest, and conscientious beings, to the improvement
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