With these limitations the proposition may be allowed to stand that the virtuous, talented woman of leisure should be granted educational advantages. But there are objections still to be met. The more important of these may be summarized with Mrs. Makin's answers: 1. "If we bring up our Daughters to Learning no Persons will adventure to Marry them." Answer: Learned men would surely choose learned wives, and it will be long before there are learned women enough to overstock the market. 2. "When Solomon praised the good housewife no mention was made of her learning." Answer: The daily tasks of Solomon's housewife required considerable knowledge. "To buy wool and flax, to dye scarlet and purple, requires skill in Natural Philosophy. To consider a field, the quantity and quality, requires knowledge in Geometry. To plant a vineyard, requires understanding in Husbandry. She could not merchandise without Arithmetic. She could not govern so great a family well without knowledge in Politics and Economics. She could not look well to the ways of her household, except she understood Physic and Chirurgery. She could not open her mouth with wisdom and have in her tongue the law of kindness without Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic." But at the best, Solomon's good housewife seems to Mrs. Makin hardly more than "an honest, well-bred, ingenious, industrious Dutchwoman," not at all the sort of talented gentlewoman of the leisure classes for whom the new liberal education is to be provided. 3. "Women are of ill Natures, and will abuse their Education." Answer: Men also abuse their Education. 4. "They will be proud and not obey their Husbands; they will be pragmatick and boast of their Parts and Improvements." Answer: "To this I Answer; What is said of Philosophy, is true of Knowledge; a little Philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again; a little knowledge, like windy Bladders, puffs up, but a good measure of true knowledge, like Ballast in a Ship, settles down, and makes a person more even in his station; 't is not knowing too much, but too little that causes the irregularity." 5. "The end of Learning is Publick Business" in which women have no concern. Answer: The private ends of learning are as important as the public ends. Moreover, this objection would apply to all men in private life. 6. "Women do not desire Learning." Answer: "Neither do many Boys." 7. "Women are of Low Parts." Answer: "So are many Men." 8. Women are soft, tender, delicate, weak. Answer: Then strengthen them by Education. 9. A learned gentlewoman is ridiculous because contrary to custom. Answer: This custom has a bad ground. Men wish women to be fools, that they may remain slaves. A bad custom should be broken that good customs may prevail.