Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Condition and Character of Females in Pagan and Mohammedan Countries
In Ceylon, when the American missionaries arrived there, not one among a population of could read. The cultivation of the female mind is thought to be not only vain, but dangerous to the welfare of society; and the direst calamities are denounced against the woman, who may aspire at the dangerous pre-eminence of being able to read and write. It is supposed that the employ ments proper for woman do not require education. She can sweep the house, cook the food, collect fuel, wait on her lord, and feed her children without it, and having discharged these duties with fidelity, the whole work of life is accomplished.(3)
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