own way, no self-reliance: no nothing. And the longer they stay in the School, the moire idiotic, stunted in mind & body, helpless they become - - - - - - - Till the first Class, the girls from 16 to 18, appeared to me the most useless machines - for doing anything but Machinery Needle work - I had ever seen in all my much-driven life: Machines all the worse for having - I will not call them womanly - but animal instincts: worse for having I will