The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-04-27

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love and truth of Others. He !. M hor,,i, !,
ne must speak with, work with his fellow-men
'ney may not understand him, but he will
speak he will wander to.and. fro tbs land r,or,
Nazareth TO Jeruselam, and will sow words Of
ne'P ana sympathy on the wind, knowing that
Tue centuries as they pass shall gather them
speak. W. Ou' "iuS'
This action and reaction of individuals IN
each other is it various but in degree and
what is induced BY difference Of sexq I,
God has appointed man and woman to do ex-
acty the same work this must be the case.
we incline to consider this action differen,
IN Kind, and the native elementary spiritual
difference between man and woman il thoir
great difference, one that throws all Others in
to the shOde-a difference that stands in boil.
DER relief as the being becomes developed-a
difference that created social life community
OF sympathy and that contains within it,elf
germ not yet expanded Of most beautiful low
and mutual stimulus-a difference that can
only De annihllated in heaven by their two
spirits becoming one. Men are som etimes
wOmanl'ke, and woman man-like; but such
are exceptions proving the rule, and not true
OF the species. Who're there are admirable
examples of this, as in The case Of a woman
VINO, at the death Of her husband. to preserve
his name in honor, or through love of her chill.
dren, assumes his duties and discharges them
well, we find that delicate conscience ana
devoted love have prescribed her work 10 her
which she will perform to the death Tbe i'm q
meaPhyslcan looks on such with deem resnoct
whlie lie would rather see them laborinp IN
other helds, knowing that what BY nature can
be done best, is best for individuals and man
that it should be done. There are again some
women earnest in saving their souls, and alto.
gether disappointed with the aims Of other
women abou' them, their frivolitv in word
ndact, the numberless patty channels through
which they consent that their power of tho't
and feeling should flow, their inanity and con-
ventionalism, with the absence in the mass.
OF strength, positive work, and heroic feeling,
that incline to make the character OF man
standard by which to form their own. But
1t Will not do; industry and holy definite pur-
pose mark their career. If they could be.
come men we should accept them for that,
and love and respect them as such bu. they
DO not; are neither men nor women, and do
not act finely on those around them, ever win
ming by their work and life more respect than
love; for we may respect where we cannot
love, while love necessitates respect.
Thisis mere question ofsex, we hear some
say. Such women live life of thought,
duty, and universal love; their hearts are some
what warm. but love, as exemplifedin the wife
or mother, existsnot as an idea with them; but
stern duty by themselves, and loving duty to
others, is sole queen within. They are of no
sex, and hence the difference. Most EN- phati-
cally do we say No! 10 this, and that the Man,
properly SO called, discIaims sex to be the ba-
sis of the Influence that woman, properly SO
called, exercises over him. Ic alfirms that
sex is not even included; that could man
speak, act, be so, with regard to him, the re-
suit would be the same; the true woman
speaks to every true man who sees her, refn-
ing and exalting his intellect and feeling, ma
king him indeed know his true manhood to
consist in the noble action of his soul. She
sends him from her with all the subtle threads
Of his being in 6rmer tension, and remembers
ing only that he too is little lower than the
angels.' She can make him work, and dare
even death for his work, and his heart ever
beating with the love Of the highest love-
She can do this without knowing it, and ber
cause her genius is influence. Yes; to warm,
to cherish into pure life the motive that shall
lead to the heroic act-this is her genius, her
madness, her song flowing out, she knows not
whittier, but returning never again. The
woman evenly developed, unfoded after Ter
own type, the one God struck approvingly
when she was created, differs from man then
in this-in possessing a greater capacity-a
greater genius to influence. She influences
through no direct exercise of power, but be-
cause she must. Influence breathes from her
and informs every thing and creature around,
and we are only conscious Of it by its results.
How different is the power that men exer-
else! Less subtle, we see it in this or that
element Of their characters; can nearly ana
lyse it, can readily perceive why it has failed
here, and been so powerful there; it is more
vOluntary-in Phort, it is not his genius. And
this is the only element which wins most per"
feet. faith while it ever slips from the fin
gers Of the logcan. A stream Of fire ever
breathing upwards. Can ye not see it? Re-
jOice then, and tremble. So spoken 10
courage is gone to question its essence, and
we find faith to be the only homage it will
receive. The true woman informs everything
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