Excerpt from the Preface: My Beloved Sex: I have taken upon myself a great task, at the age of sixty-two, through love for you and the rising generation. The Scripture teaches, -Where much is given, much will be required; that is the case with me. Nature's gift was liberal, and this gift I had ample means to cultivate. I left Boston, my native place, and kind parents, at the age of fifteen, for Montreal, there to acquire and master languages which my native home could not bestow. Here I devoted three years to French and Latin, as they were absolutely necessary for my advancement in Philosophy and Botany. I remained here some years, and frequently visited the Iroquois tribe, learning much of them in the healing art. I began to keep a regular manuscript of all I could possibly learn from every tribe and nation, not allowing myself to be biased by prejudice