New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-30
WOMAN AND HER NEEDS. No. II.

In nv former article | said the world needed
the admixture OF Woman Thought in its affairs
deep, free Woman souled utterance Is nceded'
1t is the observance OF the sexes, the condemn
ing of the one to indoor thought only, to the deg
radiation of indoor toll far more limiting in its ma
ture than that of the outdoor kind, beneath the
invigoratons of air and sky the expanse OF these
working enlargement upon the mind has done SO
much for the OF her sex and in our own has de-
veoped from the poor serving girl OF the Inn OF
Domremy, Injured to the tolls Of the stable, the
chivalric and enthusiastic Joan OF Arc, 1t Is the
making woman a creature Of luxury-an object OF
sensuality-a vehicle for reproduction-or thing
of toll. each one, or all Of thesethat has caused
half the miseres of the world She, as soul has
never been recognised. AS human being to sin
and to suffer she has had more than an ackno"l-
edgement AS human being to obey her God,
to think, enjoy, men have been blind to her ut
most needs
She has been treated always as subservlenti
and vet ALL and the most entire responsibility mas
been cxacted of her. She has had no voice IN the
law and vet has been subjected to the heaviest
penalties of the law. She has been denied the
ability to make or enforce public opinion, and yet
has been outraged, abandoned, given over to deg
radiation misery, and the thousand Ills worse than
a thousand deaths by its terrible action Even
her affections those arbitrary endo wments ln-
parted BY the Most High for her own safeguard,
and for the best being of society, have been
warped and crushed by the action OF masculine
thought upon their manifestations TILL their una
duterated play is wellnlgh lost.
Men have written for US, thought Tor us, legs
lated for us and they have constructed from thelr
own consciousness an eftigy of a woman to which
we are expected to conform. 1t IS not w oman
that they see, God forbid that 1t should be; itls
one of those monsters OF neither sex, that some
times outrage the pangs of maternity, but which
expire at the birth, whereas the distorted image
to which men wish us to conform, lives to Devil
der to mislead and be msled and to cause DIS
cord and bettlement where the Creator designed
the highest dignity the most complete harmony;
Men have said we should be thus and thus and
we have tried TO be in accordance because we are
told it is womanly. They have said we must
think in a certain way; and we have tried 80 to
think they have said that under given clrcum,
stances W e must act after a particular mode and
we have thus acted-ay even when the voice OF
God in our own hearts has called out where art
thou ~ and we have hid ourselves, not daring TO
reply for with that cowardce which men tellus is
feminine we dared not face that public opinion
which men have established dared not encounter
that ridicue which men first start, and weak Wo-
men follow up--dare not face that isolation which
great and true thought brings upon itself IN the
present pettiness and prejudice OF the world.
Till Woman learns to cast out the oond "o-
man. her and her oitspring-sen them torth INTO
the wilderness of thought, no angel can sucCoI
her She must cast herself down amid the ARD
ness Of thought-hungry and thirsty Tor Vne
truth--she may veil her eyes that she see not
the death of the child even the lshmaeis Oh er
ror. whence shall be born a nation, armed
against its kind even the hoarness OF established
fasehood for often will she find Truth revealed in
wav she little supposed and which she trem0es
TO perceive but let her not tear-et her trust 10
those ntuitions, better than all the demonstrations
of reason-let her think and feel, and see, ana
grasp with courage which is oil God and all VIII
be well g
Let Woman learn to take woman view OF
tbinqe Let her feel the need of womans
thought. Let her search into her own needs
saw not what has the world hitherto thought IN
regard to this or that, but what is the true vie" oil
il from the nature of things. Let her not say,
what does my husband, my brother, my lather
think wise and good and trustworthy though
they be-but let her evolve her own Thought, re-
coanize her own needs, aud judge OF her own acts
by the best lights of her own mind -,
Let her feel and understand that there IS dlt
ference in the soul in the bodies Oh the sexes
n difference designed 10 produce the most Deau-
tiful harmony But let her not, in admitting this
admit Of nferorlty. While the form OF Man IS
as it were more arbitrary, more OF fact III crea-
ton. more distinct and uniform, sort oil com
pleteness of the material and ms mlud also more
OF a fixture, better adapted to the eXactl-
tudes of science, and those protracted ldpors
Deedful to the harder developments Of the under
Standing let her bear in mind that this tlXedness,
this patience of labor this steadlness o. the ull-
derstauding are in conformity with nus pos tton as
Io,d of tie material tAuerSe to which dod mas
apuointed him whereas she was an after cfea-
tion with something nearer allied 10 the heavenly
L 1C TinE
more graceful ETHEREAL and beautiful, appealing
,norn Intimately to that something within the Soul
If Mon that goes onward to the future and eter-
nal-o softeufDg down Of the material to the lllu-
sous of the unseen--her MIND also, WITH
unstuted and unauthorized, has IN IL more VI
aspiration more OF the subtle aud inttutlYe cnar-
actar that links it to spiritual she IS impatient
| Of labor because her wings are nearly freed from
the shell of the chrysatis, and prompt to better
element; she cares less tor the deductions OF
reason because she has an clement IN herseH
nearer to the truth than reason can ever reac' oy
which she feels the approaches oil he true aad tIe
beautiful without the manly wrestllngs all night
ofthe Patriarch to which the other sex are sub
iected She does not need the ladder OF Bethel,
the step by step of the slow oglcian, because her
feet are already upon the first rung OF that mystic
pass way this is why sheis bid by the arrogance
OF npostoc injunction to vel! her head IN puollc'
because of the Angels She IS 4 step nearer
them than her material lord and master. The
Angels recognize her as of nearer affinity.
Let il not be thought say this lightly. Would
that Women would receive it as a solemn truth
that they would out Of their own souls reject the
hardness of materialism Which the masculine
mind engenders from its own elements, and re-
ceive cordially and meekly the truth it is wit
messed in their own souls. 1t was this pure, ready
recipiency, this let it be to thy handmade as
seemeth to thee good that distinguished the
i Maid OF Judah above all others Of ner sex, and
enabled her to receive without questioning tne