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Title: You and I;
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Etiquette Culture
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. (etc.) F. B. Dickerson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tendencyof the age, which, it would be unfair to deny, it has inheritedfrom former ages. Not necessary that the minds of the mothers of the humanrace be cultivated! Whose, then? Why the lines: The hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that moves the world! in a pleasant, simple statement convey a weighty truth. Buta weightier lies behind: The fate through the eternal yearsof progress of every human being, more than upon anyother merely human circumstance, depends upon what lessonshave been taught him at his mothers knee,— what influenceshave been breathed into his soul by the being who bore, whofirst loved, and who nurtured him during his earliest and mostsusceptible years! 1X2 A PLEA FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF MOTHERS. Think of this, mothers, as you gaze into the sweet angel-faces of the helpless darlings lying in your arms,— and trembleat your responsibility, while you pray for grace and strengthto enable you to perform aright your mission with the heaven-sent little stranger.
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I repeat, if there were no such thing as futurity,— no suchpossibility as a posterity to suffer for our sins of commission,or omission,— no hope of a future upward progress, or danger YOU AND I. 113 of deeper degradation for the race,— no possibility of humanachievement higher than that of accumulating sordid richesfor purposes merely temporary and at best so poor,— my posi-tion would lose much of its significance, and I had remainedsilent. It is, at length, an acknowledged fact of physiology, that thechild of an intelligent and refined woman will frequentlyinherit its mothers intelligence and refinement, notwithstand-ing the coarseness, even vulgarity, of its father; and one acuteobserver and able writer has declared that most men of tran-scendent abilities nearly resemble their maternal parent intheir mental and spiritual constitutions. On the other hand,the sons and daughters of a coarse, uncultured mother arealmost certain to exhibit corresponding intellectual traits, even

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