New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-07-17

has baen seen that, as the loss oil 10 DONG ought
to destroy human being, so ought the missing
Of none to hinder hiIn from growing. And thus
circumstance OF the time has helped TO pa
Woman on the true platform. Perhaps the mex,
generation VIII look deeper into this matter anu
find that contempt Is put on old MAIDS OF oi4
women at all, merely because they DO not use
the elixir which Will keep the soul always youiiS
No one thinks OF Michael Angeles Perslcan SIoyi'
or St. Theresa, or Tasso's Leonora, or the creek
Electra as an old maid, though all had feacheo
the period in lfc's course appointed to take that
degree.
Even among the American indians, race Of
men as completely engaged IN mere instructive
life as almost any IN the world, and where each
/ chief. keep;nr many wives as useful servants Of
I course looks with no kind eye en- cc,lbacy IN wo-
I man. it was excused IN the following instance
mentioned by Mrs. Jameson. a woman dreant
In youth that she was betrothed to the SUM- She
/ butt her d wigwan apart, filed 1t with cnlbIems
( Of her alliance and means Of an Independent
/ life There she passed her days, sustained by
! her own exertlons, and true to her supposed en-
( gagement.
In any tribe, we believe, a woman, who lived
as if she was betro1hed % the sun, would be toll
Grated, and the rayg which made her youth bios
/ som swcctly would crown her with halo IN age
There IS on this subject noblcr view than
heretofore, if not the noblest, and we greet I'M
provement here, as much as on the subject OF
marriage Both arc fertile themes. but tire per-
rnts not here to explore tflcln,
If larger intelIcctrai resources begun TO be
deemed necessary 10 woman, still more is splr-
itua diyni.y IN her. or even the mere assumption
of !. listened TO with respect. Joanna Southcotc,
and Mother Anne Lee are sure OF Il band OF DIS
ciples: Ecstatica, DoorosO, OF enrapulcd keilcv-
ers who will visit them in their lowiv hats, and
wait for hours to revere them u their frances
The foreign noble travels land and sen TO hear q
few words from the bps of the lowy peasant glrl,
whom he believes especially visited by the Most
high Very beautiful in this way was The lnilu-
cncc of the invalid Of s.. Petersburg, as described
by De Mais!rc
To this region, however misunderstood and i'll
developed, belong the phenomena Magnetism or
Mesnerism, as 1t is now called where the trance
of The Ecstatica purports to be produced by the
agency OF one human being on another, instead
oil, as IN her case, direct from the spirit.
The wording has hip gieer here as about the
services Of religion The churches can always
be filed vii, women 'Show me a man in
Women are indeed the easy victims of priest
craft, or selfdelusion, but this NIGH! not Re, if
the intellect was developed III prororiof. 10 the
other powers, They would ftieit have a regula-
tor and be in better couip5se, vet must retain the
same nervous susceptibility, while their physical
structure II such as 1t is.
II is with Just that hope that we welcome
every thing that tends to strengthen the fibre and
H. b.,, no m
tellec and affections are in harmony, when intel
lcctua consciousness is calm and deep, inspiration
will not be COMPOUNDED with fancy.
The electrical the magnetic element III wo-
man. has not been fairly developed at any period.
Every thing might be expected from it /; she has
far more of it than man. This is generally ex-
pressed by saving, that her irtutions arc more
rapid and more correct.
But cannot enlarge upon this here, except to
say that on this side is highest promise. Should
| speai, of 1t fully, my title should be Cassandra,
my topic the ScercSs of Prevorst the first, or the
best observed subject Of magnetism IN our times.
and who, like her ancestrcsseS at DeIphos, was
reused to ecstasy or phrenzyb the touch Of the
laurel
In such cases worldlings snecr but reverent
men learn wondrous news, either from the person
observed, or by the thoughts caused in themselves
By the observation. Fenelon learns from Guyon,
kerner from his seresS what we fam would know.
But 10 appreciate such disclosures, one must be
child, and here the phrase women and child
rem, may perhaps be interpreted Alright, that only
little children shall enter into the kingdom OF
heaven.
All these motions OF the time, tides that be
token a waxing moon. overflow upon our own
I,,r IIrr to LOT