Excerpt from An Address on Female Education: Delivered at Columbus, December 31, 1844 But it is not true that women have less capacity than men. Ou the contrary, all experience shows that in childhood, the only period in which there is any fair competition, the sisters not only keep pace with the brothers, but Often, and almost always out strip them, in every branch Of learning, Whether it depends upon the memory or the reasoning powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.