Blair Collection > Practical grammar of the antient Gaelic, or, Language of the Isle of Man, usually called Manks

tliat tliey become of less value in the eyes and minds of theii'
husbands : whereas, when they partake and divide nearly their
laboui\s, they become more necessary to one another, and their
affections and esteem will bear some proportion to their respective
usefulness in promoting- their common comfort ; for, an equality
of uesfulness is the stronger cement of conjugal affection.
There is a gi'adation in the scale of society, from the barbarous
state to the most refined and luxurious ; and though this grada-
tion is influenced in some measure by climate, we may easily
observe that wherever women are not permitted to divide and
partake of the common labour, that this exemption proceeds, not
from tenderness or compassion for their sex, but from contempt
and the unworthy idea that they are sent into the world to serve
only the pleasures and appetites of man.
If now the education which you enable these children of both
sexes to acquire tends to render them more useful servants and
more moral characters, infinitely superior are those advantages
which they shall derive from this and similar institutions in their
capacity of citizens and Christians; for if a man shall serve his
masters upon earth with more fidelity, because he is instructed
that " his and their Master is in heaven, and that He has com-
manded him to be obedient, and not with eye-service, as men-
pleasers, but as the servant of Christ, doing the will of God from
the heart,^^* shall he not also, when he is instructed to be " sub-
ject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's saJce ; to the king,
as supreme, and to governors, as to those who are sent by Him,^^f
submit to civil subordination and respect the laws ?
And when we behold the convulsed state of Europe, and the
desire of change which has manifested itself in several countries,
nay, even in our own, there appears to be no natural barrier
against this overflowing torrent, except in the mass of the people
possessing well-informed and enlightened minds, in understand-
ing the excellence of the constitution of their country, the value
of their liberties, and the goodness of their laws. There will be
♦ Eph. V. 6. I 1 Petuiii. 15.