New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-09
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
SKETCHES OF LECTURES.
Woman.
BY HON. HORACE MANN.

delivered in the hall Of the Brookya Institute
Tuesday evening, by Hon. Horace Mann The audience
was than the evening of the last lee
ture On being introduced. Mr. Mann spoke substan-
tislly az follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: In the lecture to which !
had the honor OF your attention week ago attempted
10 set forth the great idea that God had created man
male ana female on the principle Of Division OF La
Dor That different capacities and different suscep-
tibites had been given 10 the sexes-snd seems TO
ne that II would have been less absurd % have
made the Crystal Palace all OF iron, or all OF glass
than 10 have endowed the two sexes with the
same suscepubities and powers. Woman has al.
ways been the inferior of Man in point OF physical
strength. And hence, Man has exercised a dominion
and control her and deprived her of many OF her
rights and privileges. This hes been true during the
whole history of the race. Look at the institutions OF
poly ssmy that have prevailed onehat Of the globe
and the institutions il may speak, of cehbacy that
have prevailed the other halt, and then think what
must be the result OF this state OF things TO woman
Among ourselves che occupies the place OF dependency
ard sub eryiency She IL far less rewarded tor labor
than Man and her sphere OF occupations Is very much
mere circumscTibed than his And hence her depend
ence And hence the idea that has grown up, that WON
en- must marry for the sake OF a settlement Inc next
worst thing 10 settlement without marriage The
education OF Woman has been vastly inferior to tns OF
Man But if only should be educated that should
be Woman rs,her than Man We are now looking TO an
enlarged sphere of occupation on the part OF females
where Women have been permitted to enter upon the
ssme labor Men, they have been employed In per.
forming the interior portions OF T. In New England
you see a thousand Women employed In large manu-
factory but Men are always employed To oversee
them having three times their salary way
could not Women as well Men act the part OF over
seers and receive their salary Large numbers OF Men
pIe also employed a. proofresders Why should not
Women perform the same duiy' They would make as
good pre- ofrerderf, ii not better ones, than Men.
But most beautiful field Of labor offering both ehiom'
ner nnd Distinction II open 10 Woman IN the arts
OF Design For this work, Nature has gwen 20 woman
timer tasts than the other Look at the hideous
and riahtul forms of the idols worshped by the hea
then in India and cay If Woman could ever have EN-.
bodied conceptions CHASTITY and loothsome as these
When Womans finer tastes and capacities shall be EN-
poyed in fgning, engraving, and painting then shall
we be surrounded everywhere with new forms OF grace
and OF beauty As Art advances, Nature, too WIZ en-
robe herself in loveer forms and eoorG Let the ran
ing power Of song be taught to your children ami thc
art of Drawing become occupation oil mothers, ana
cur houses and our schoolrooms and colleges will echo
with musc far loyeer than any TO which we have yet
-tened.
Permit me to say that there is department of la
hor roth In city and counryo which Woman seems pc
culiarly adapted and knowledge winch she shoulu
not fiji to possess The topics honey, but what per
tbins to acme should be always OF interest Every wo
man should be good housekecper And Tor TINS, one
must have service in all the subordinate ranks
smsrt active housekeeper IL great desideranm with
man. There men who care not farthing tor all tne
polkss and waltzes and piano drumming IN creation
they cen be cure Of going home 1t night and hnding
their supper ready somewhere within hiteen degrees OF
the appointed tune. tApplause.l But some women
seem ever DESTROYS OF intoxicating their husbands with
the virtue of patience They wish them IA Longiellow
stys, 49,,
Or rather TO wait and hen olaborl Apphuse
In the home OF The accomplished housekeeper, every
thing il in order. Even we arc told that the stock
in heaven knoweth her appointed time 30 Ia the well
keut house all the ducks aud turkeys know their APP
pointed time Of coming, and all culinary utensils IKE
jobs beast, 'go into their dens and keep silence
Laughter In all her condiments and preserves she
gives les,ons therapeutics Hence, in her house there
u no dyspepsia but enpersy Under her ROOF, serene
sleep chsses away all nightmares and headaches. Her
children have frolcs, in lieu OF COLES. Laughter
He who is possessed OF such wife. enjoys In one re
suect the security hereafter in this hie tor he
lives where moth and rust doth not corrupt His
linen deres to be without button, and no sean
ares TO rip (as men sometimes do) tor knows the
peuslty of having its mouth Immediately sewed up
lIauehter But the mOst honorable employment
! known in society emphsticslly belongs 20 Woman
the education OF youth TINS law seems 70 esvae
her al once the highest position OF honor and glory
Admit THE and you admit that the highest sttainnens
belong TO In chancnl works the latter processes
demsnd the superior skill. In polishing the diamond,
the lat touches demand the excelling power But In
mental processes the primary parts demand the greaest
kill of the teachers hand There said to be garden
plant through whose root the gardener draws sHen oi
six of whichever color he wishes the plant b be when
grown and the color OF this silk Is diused throughout
the whole plant, rendering OF The same nue.
Thus it is with the child. The influence OF the
Hence gentleress well wsdom and at
fiction 90 well conscience are required in the rear
ing of children Education at hrs alnost exclusively
hers The mother and chill continue % De one years
after ;ts birth Her soul Is atmosphere around il
sou and If that atmosphere be pure then indeed the
child breathes the air Of heaven before Il IL contain
mated by earth Let then, Womans voice DC ianihar
voice in chools and academies and halls Of scence
Let whatever oil the heroic there in her nature be
developed into blossong frusge, and all nature shali
rejoice. the bridegroom reJoeetn tor the orde: ,
But there are cuployments whslly incompatible with
her nsture Such Il the military profession The very
feet OF War subvers the very ends for which socia soc
ETY. was established IL violates God laws OF rehglon
and morality. In peace murder u crime In var, nis
an honor In peace, he who provides for widows and
orphans is beloved while living, Cherished IN memory
when dehd In war, be who robs widows and orphans
is often the worshipped idol while living, and "a u,
death the historic hero. Such Ii the character oi al
unjust wars. They subyert the order OF nature,
! and counferusnd the law OF Cod Safans Ia"
becomes the higher law, and Goa law oniy ssc"na ~.
But let not Woman parske of the evils oil war Ldnos
The eladitorial specscles Of the Coliseum be strangers
/ 10 her nature And, a. for the Curtain Lectures,
with which she shall entertain her husband iease W
Mr. and Mr.. Csude 70 determine. tApplsse. Wo
wan should be with the criminal ten thousand times
| more than she has been; and she should be
with him within the prison wals, where ner love re-
to,rns nstesd II IN the court room, wnere nous out
stern justice prevss see but one reason why woman
| should noe preach the Gospel and that reason 10,
that il il terthoussnd times better 70 60 about
PRACTISING the Gospel than even 20 preach H. And there
are sone OF the departments Of the Healing AT also
, adopted to woman There is htness and propnety in
having ierraie physicians Indeed, Is often barbarian
10 have any ether There custom Of savage tribes
more barbarous than that Of sending young doctor
luz. from college, into the sck chamber OF the refined
| and educated laty.
Botany u another beautiful occupation for Woman.
The science combining medicine. requires the very fac
ulries which Woman eminenfly possesses Here then
you have the elements whose combination makes the
perfect physeEn; and you ind them all most genial TO
the tA<te and adapted 10 the capacities Of Woman But
Pohtics-Hcw Is Il possible that any mortal who has
lived within the horrd stencil Of that black lake can
desire 20 Woman embarked uDon IN tuYbSd