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unlimited expansion of the real higher nature of man. It is a well ascertained law of duty that, subjectively looked at, selfishness and sensuality lead to vice and wickedness, while unselfish love and self-control lead to the development of virtue.
And duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its wheels that it runs smoothly; else it is a continuous friction. What parents can otherwise do their duties to their children? What children to their parents ? What husband to his wife? What wife to her husband? Do we not meet with cases of friction every day in our lives? Duty is sweet only through love, and love shines alone in freedom. Yet is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must and do occur every day in human life? In all these little roughnesses that we meet with in life, the highest expression of freedom and of power is to forbear. Women, slaves to their own irritable, jealous tempers, are often apt to attribute blame to their husbands, and assert their own “freedom," as they think,
