The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-01

calls itself fasAionabs society Is degrading rather than
eevatinG II too French In its chazaeter and does mot
embrace the idea Of her exalted destiny In view Of
not asttsry. but Justice where woman has not
been debased by adulaton she has been by oppression
and through the osn. world her position has been
hxed by the Law Of vouptuouness Ny regard for
too exalted and sincere TO insult her b. adulation
Duties lie all along the glorious vista into which would
lead her One cannot discuss any part of this subject
without encounterDg upon the threshold the modern
day whose creed is that that the sexes are equal that
nature has endowed them with equal faculties equal
capacities for thought action and hence that ali de-
partments of busines all pursuits and all professions
. common arena where DO h enter and wreste
together for the common prizes Of life The leader Of
Esquire, Of Brussels in Belgium, who dresses like
In blue frock coat, shining buttons buff vest and
the only then between diapers and tailors
and The old saying that the tailor makes the man." Is
h hoas ,ol ne makes men ana women notn, ana
shears he can turn man into woman. How
it seems to that there is great and nson-
estble aca fact Of viii ,h the Almighty himself is the
immediate author-a fact which 10 emboiied Ia
bodies inspired into spirits and organized into
whole organization which settles this at for
ever and 1t is this :God created man. male and female,
upon the principle Of the division Of labor 1t takes both
the sole Of the foot the an stomst cannot find single
vital organ in the two which have the local form
and action; and in the spiritual endowmenss there are
also great differences 1t is argued that woman
made from and thence certain do.trine of iden.
tty consubstanality is derived but from how much
the pucleus-only bone out of two hundred
and ffty--one two hundred and fftieth part of
ment to prove that . bare bone is very different
thing from bone with live woman round 1t,
and the malicious suggestion that woman was made
deductions being drawn as to womans temper is not
subsantiaed From all that venerable narrative how
the evidence Of mans devotion for arises
from the fact of the deep sleep that fell upon him before
the bonpg operation made for Adam must have been
in smeric state and does not this account for the
merle power that she has exerted man ever
since Applause.) Between the there is hold,
cogpate distinction which nature never loses sight Of
As general law, man surpasses woman In physical
strength and in the intellectual faculties where
playss part but woman surpasses man in beauty TASTE
grace affection, and purity Female nature Ia male
ture refined Nature her in finer mould.
and tempered her at a purer flame. In the words Of
Burns-
Tier prentice hand she tried on man.
And then she made the lasses O."
:. None but man could have issued the command that
the first b. IN of the Hebrews should be murdered but
woman made the execution of that command impossible.
Mans power eliminates in command ana fsrocity,
man in compassion an tears Mans torce is dynamic,
he iDyents machines which from their velocity might
be well named after the scandinavian god Thor Ju
ptter Anon but womans forces are caloric elements;
his might is in muscle and logic hers in fascination and
pathes Miss Dix has won as many laurels Ma.
bottom in mans affections but the plumbet will
drop in woman's love IT may be said that there is
considerable difference tetwsen boys and girls in regard
ton; but one thing cannot be denied tina. in all times
and countries girls develops earlier than boys Were the
rearing OF infants dependent upon man, think the
would die from neglect, or such clumsiDess which
would be more fatal than neglect for gu
peiinteI ding nursery Of children would be like
an elephsnt breeding chickens. for the more closely
he tends them the more he brushes them (Lauehter)
II is impossible that we can understand the Of
these thin ana must exclam, with the psalmist-
Day unto day offereth speech, and night night
shedeth knowledge Even in crime the characteristics
existing between the is no less marked Fer in
Eighth wera
ike each other father and daughter could be- yet
strong diff between them that he MADE
OF ten thousand bears and she out of The
character of woman has wider arch Of oscillation than
that Of man. for when she falls her degradation is
general comparison the gifts and excelences women
hold the pre- emnence What has become of women for
virtue as vulgar heroes have conquered them yet
has dehased her into the of his animal
sions For COCO years woman has been allowed to be
little more than the mother Of the ra,e-and such q
rsce-a which If it be not infinitely improved be-
yond its present condition it is not irrelevant
10 ask whether it will not be most irglorious
display of 0mnipotence, if ceaseless CONGREGATIONS
and slaughters to be the pastime of kings and
mics navies are to draw away the fruits OF the earth
and the fruits human toll The lecturer here
to the har treatment which womanhood had suffered
from the time of the Jews until the close of the Middle
Ages and that their virtues crimes had scarcely
found place in literature In large folio volume
snned he, PrepsIed few years ago by the Rev W;
Celebrated Women of the Old Testament how many
think deemed worthy Of notice in such work.
was obliged to include Jesabel Raha the Harlo and the
Witch Of Endor and. in the New Testament only toue
half dozen recorded for their pety Professionalism
has done moro than anything else to elevate the
condition Of women for invarsby find that In
those countries where that religion is practised,
her condition is infinitely superior than In Ca,ho-
lie countries. Within the last half century the
United Kingdom Of Great Britain with average popu
laton Of twenty five millions has produced many emf
nent women all the rest of Europe with more than
two hundred millions OF people and New England and
New York with less population, have nearly as
many distinguished women Great Britain Europe.
In London there now 80 600 needle living at
starya, ion point and who only from twopence half
penny to fourpence per day and from late citing,
which held there time since OF 200 of these
unfortunates ninttyeieht had only earned shilling
during the preceding week and eighty two and six
pence and so In several Of Atlantic cities the
proportion of suffering is nearly great. The
create ST injustice to appertains TO education The
fmse mind Is capable Of deveopement that of the
other sex, for, coupled with man, believe che
would give ample return for the labor bestowed
upon her. The lecturer here went to show that
the only mode by which the female character could
be elevated by afiordng to her the fac lies Of
education given to the mail particularly in
mathe mates and classics The beneficial results that
will follow the adoption Of such Continued Mr.
Mann, cannot reveal still, things which lay
in inme date proximity, see and at every
advance which make the prospect is open before u.s.
and We shall discover path already made showing how
this be done; but the consideration of this i'm
portant part of the subject must defer until
from this time.
The meeting then separated.