*The preceding lecture was entitled "Of Kings's Treasures."
There is then, I repeat (and as I want to leave this idea with you,
I begin with it, and shall end with it) only one pure kind of kingship,
---an inevitable or eternal kind, crowned or not,---the kingship, namely,
which consists in a stronger moral state and truer thoughtful state than
that of others, enabling you, therefore, to guide or to raise them.
Observe that word "state :" we have got into a loose way of using it.
It means literally the standing and stability of a thing; and you have
the full force of it in the derived word "statue"---"the immovable
thing." A king's majesty or "state," then, and the right of his kingdom
to be called a State, depends on the movelessness of both,---without
tremor, without quiver of balance, established and enthroned upon a
foundation of eternal law which nothing can alter or overthrow.
Believing that all literature and all education are only useful so far
as they tend to confirm this calm, beneficent, and therefore kingly,
power,---first over ourselves, and, through ourselves, over all around
us,--- I am now going to ask you to consider with me further, what
special portion or kind of this royal authority, arising out of noble
education, may rightly be possessed by women; and how far they also are
called to a true queenly power,---not in their households merely,
but over all within their sphere.
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