New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-23

more profound the view which II taken OF Its OBJ
Jet, the more minute will be the division Of labor
the more accurately viii the different branches
be separated from the others, and the more wal
every department. maintain the dignity Of an inde-
pendent system.
Well then, while Fourier and his SOcialistic fell
lowers demanded a chimerical equality between
man and woman Whist do we find in reality The
recognition oft p rsonal significance of woman
the recognition Of the difference in the natural
destiny Of the seIes-in a word, the division Of
labor.
! The true emancipation Of woman is the unfold.
ing of her indviduslty-her emancipation from
every thing which heretofore has prevented her
from becoming wife and mother-the emanci-
patton Of the family from that service TO the State,
which it has rendered for many ages.
The heroines Of Greek antiquity, the Clytem-
nestras, the Electras, the Iphigenias, exhibit
in their strong consciousness of selfhood in their
Independent modes Of action a certain equality Of
rights with man-but this equality is only equal
heroic ferceness;-s yes we see no genuine spec-
mems Of womanhood.
The pnestesses Of antiquity were on an equality
with the priests; butthis only shows that they had
not yet attained to any thing peculiar and charac-
teristic--the woman had not yet made her appear
ance among them.
The huntress Diana, who reclaimed the earth
from the possession of wild beasts,-the reflective
and wariike Minerva, stand on an equality with
the masculine divinities-that is, they are not yet
women--the division of labor has nos come-man
has not yet assumed combat and science as his
exclusive possession.
The Greek lived only in the State-he was, as
Aristotle has defined in general, political
being. The ia nily and woman had as yet no i'm
portance whatever in comparison with the State.
They served only for the maintenance of the State,
supplying it with new citizens. Woman, aceor-
DINGHY, as well as man, was tn as nothing more than
a political being.
What was the result
That man was not yet man. The State could
not yet develop his peculiar masculine character.
IL is true that if the Greek lived only for
the State, only with men, if his position was
constantly in the camp, in the market, or in the
assembly of the people, this rlinous strlngency
was introduced by the critical condition Occa-
stoned by the danger that was constantly threat
ened on the side ot the Oriental sheOcracy.
With all this, we may still say that the state Of
civil affairs which did not yet allow to woman an
appropriate position and development, represented
the feminine nature in the midst Of masculine ele-
ments-the masculine nature had IN fact assumed
the part of the feminine.
The jealousy, exercised by the State, in watch
ing yer every masculine interest-the strictness
and suspicion with which 1t observed the DISPOSE
ton of its subects-the severity OF Its constant
question: whether they were sincere IN their Inten-
tons with regard to the State, or were pursuing
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decidedly feminine character.
L. was also womanly jealousy with which the
ideal State of Plato for example, placed the poets
snder suspicion and banished Homer from It's pres
eDoe.
cised by the individual Greek States toward each
other-wOmaDly their mutual cOntentOns-wo-
manly the passiOna eness with which they waged
war with each other-womaaly, fr example,
the bitterness Of the Pelspounesian War-wO-
manly the reckessness and desperation with
which the whole Greek Commonwealth hnaly
separat ed and Tell to pieces.
tor the division OF labor, for the emancipation OF
the family from the State, for the peculiar position
of woman in relation To man, nothing, therefore,
can speak more clearly, than the Greek hir, which
nuhfed woman IN the Commonwealth, and was
Obliged manifest the force OF the indestructble
femIDIne element in the wOmanly jealousy of tho
State, converting man into a masculine woman
WI at man is destined TO obtain IN social, scien-
achieved and completed by effort and activity
woman enjoys in nediStely by the privilege OF her
nstuIe-she IL tree from the unrest and distraction
OF abOr-that is to say, shs ID subject 10 plastic
force, like "A work OF Art.
In the social world, and in her relations with
man. she is the same as work OF Art IN the intel
lecua world. in rels ton 70 science especially TO
the science of the method of universal laws.
To sss-Tt the equality Of man and woman-to
demand for instance, that woman should take
specific part in all the pursuits OF man-that she
should have equal political rights with man.
would be a retrOgraoe step toward past state oil
barbarian, Just if the separation OF Art aud Sci
ence which has been gained by so much effort,
should be set aside, and Science set forth III di-
dactic poems like those of iIesod, Art subjected
to the practical service OF Science.
To place man and woman in position OF equal
ity, would be TO take away the strongest support
from the combat and supremacy which form the
DESTINY ofman-it Guild rob him Of the companion,
who was given to correct his errors to recall HIM
from the distractions of combat, OF thought, and
oflabor TO this actual necessities oil the world, to
restore him 10 unity from the endless DIVISIONS OF
the details of labor snd TO lead HIM back from the
struggle with the world, from dissensi9n ana aa
taeonism TO delight IN reality.
The nature of the will point ont she essen
tiaI difference and the absolutely different position
of the sexes in opposition to all chmeHcd IDEAS
of saualty. Even that which the advocates Oh
equality regard part payment on the ihekoraols
demand Tor the impTescnpt'be rights oi "oinah7
her legal independence IN respect oil property anu
the facility of diyorce-belongs only to the cOlat-
era issues of revolutionary and transitional epochs.
A. IA the fac lity Of divorce, 1t Is Certain that IL
oil be IN high degree repusnant TO the more re-
fined feeling OF the Importance and obligation oi
resolution once made, which will prevail IN the
future, as well to the deeper ssnse OF the sou
| DAINTY of interest," and duties. BRUSO BAUER
The Position of Russia.
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