Note E32 — Chapter XXVI · THE MANUAL ELEMENT IN EDUCATION IN 1884.

“In fine, I have been beloved by the four women whose love was of the most comfort to me: My mother, my sister, my wife and my daughter. I have had the better part, and it will not be taken from me, for I often fancy that the judgments which will be passed upon us in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, will be neither more nor less than those of women, countersigned by the Almighty.”—“Recollections of My Youth,” p. 306. By Ernest Renan. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1883.