Frances Power Cobbe Quote

We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.


Lecture I, p. 23 - The Duties of Women (1881)


We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral...

We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral...

We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral...

We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature may attain; and our duty is nothing else than the fulfilment of the whole moral...