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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: come to our last, our widest question.--What is her queenly office
with respect to the state?
Generally, we are under an impression that a man's duties are
public, and a woman's private. But this is not altogether so. A
man has a personal work or duty, relating to his own home, and a
public work or duty, which is the expansion of the other, relating
to the state. So a woman has a personal work or duty, relating to
her own home, and a public work or duty, which is also the expansion
of that.
Now the man's work for his own home is, as has been said, to secure
its maintenance, progress, and defence; the woman's to secure its
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