text:  Who can elevate its dignity? who can exaggerate its importance? Not to make laws not to lead armies not to govern empires but to form those by whom laws are made and armies led and empires governed; to guard from the slightest taint of possible infirmity the frail and as yet spotless creature whose moral no less than his physical being must be derived from her; to inspire those principles to inculcate those doctrines to animate those sentiments which generations yet unborn and nations yet uncivilized shall learn to bless; to soften firmness into mercy to chasten honour into refinement to exalt generosity into virtue; by her soothing cares to allay the anguish of the body and the far worse anguish of the mind; by her tenderness to disarm passion; by her purity to triumph over sense; to cheer the scholar sinking under his toil; to console the statesman for the ingratitude of a mistaken people; to be the compensation for hopes that are blighted for friends that are perfidious for happiness that has passed away