Reverend George Sumner Weaver (1818-1908) was an American author. He was born in Rockingham, Vermont. He studied law but quit to study and practice theology. His works include: Lectures on Mental Science According to... Phrenology (1852), Hopes and Helps for the Young of Both Sexes (1853), Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women on the Various Duties of Life (1854), The Ways of Life (1855), The Christian Household (1855), The Open Way (1873), Moses and Modern Science (1874), The Heart of the World (1883) and Lives and Graves of Our Presidents Biography (1884).

My interest in woman and our common humanity is my only apology for writing this book. I see multitudes of young women about me, whose general training is so deficient in all that pertains to the best ideas of life, and whose aims and efforts are so unworthy of their powers of mind and heart, that I can not make peace with my own conscience without doing something to elevate their aims and quicken their aspirations for the good and pure in thought and life.

"My interest in woman and our common humanity is my only apology for writing this book. I see multitudes of young women about me, whose general training is so deficient in all that pertains to the best ideas of life, and whose aims and efforts are so unworthy of their powers of mind and heart, that I can not make peace with my own conscience without doing something to elevate their aims and quicken their aspirations for the good and pure in thought and life." The book is an interesting piece of history, such as is needed now more than ever. If people were to be raised to have a proper set of manners rather than an over-developed sense of entitlement, this nation might not be in quite the same degree of crudeness that it is unfortunately mired in today.