The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-07-03

drich ckerbOcker wrote bis verscious history
Of New York, he thought it prudent to go back
to the creation Of the world in order 10 reach
the first cause OF the events be would narrate
With somewha, more serious purpose ! would
begin al the same primal period 20 trace the
question | propose 10 discuss 10 day. The work
Of creation had been completed, including man
the last and nobest work the morning stars
sang the joyous birth-song of the world. and
Time and History began their march along the
untracked centuries.
But defect existed. Man was alone. Yet
great social nature lay hidden in that solitary
fist man. In his richly endowed soul were the
germs of all human societies Of families aud
States OF cities cODtederacies and mighty en-
pires. Speech with its progeny Of literature,
science, laws. arts schools, colleges AID sacred
song love with ts heroisms and crimes amb;ior
with it, power to build or blight, and many sided
sympathy. ready, Ike a harp, to vbrste to the
iighie,t touch OF others JOY or woe, - all lay
slunbering in that human heart. Thus the 'wO
man question arose.
This question. as a love question, wa settled
then, as now,-just rs in that old marriage OF the
land and sea, tue obeGirUce Of both TO the one
great central traction rounds them into perfect
sphere Though madam huctuates, and scatters
fearful spray over her husbands rugged counte
nance, and he on the contrary is subject to earth
quakes, and insists stoutly maintaining his
points a. promon,ories.yet when the storm pass
es by, and the subterranean forces lie still, the
sea settles lovingly to the shore, and the CONT
neut stretches out i;s arms TO receive the bles-
sings of its embrace.
But the question of woman's position, as one
Of law and logic, have forever puzzled the world
She has been regarded as all intruder. From in
truding into the confidence and stealing away
the affections Of unsuspecting young men, she has
proceeded to ntrude into his house, his pockets
and his peace-into courts and cabinets, into the
walk. OF industry, into literature and journalism,
into politics aud the pulpit. She has at last made
her appearance in our colleges, SO long sacred
from her tread, and now what remains but that
she shall intrude into the ballot box and offices
of trust and emolualent: Is it not all of piece
with that frs, act of her intrusion into the gar
den of Eden after all things had been pronounce
ed good
The law counts the woman simply a part Of
the man-merely detached rib. and as such
her personality aud rights are merged in his
Reforners, On the contrary, assert the absolute
equality, if not the entire similarity of the sexes.
They scout as a metaphysical subtlely. or rO-
mantle dream, those subtle differences of organ.
ic constitution which divide manhood and NO.
manhood, and these passional attractions which
lie, both as powers and prophecies, in the heart
ot every man and woman. Six thousand years,
whose history il written, would be more the his
tory o. Ipen and women, than o. Governments
and States. cannot convince these strong minded
individuals that the differences OF the sexes are
radical and essential.
cannot pause to describe or expose all the
solutions that have been offered TO tlfs " woman
question" but theorize as we WILL the great fact
remains that roman is roman. No resolutions
of Boomer Conventions can unsex her. or make
her simply a ts,aale man, nor can any 6attery of
poet or lover prove her all incarnate angel. She
is an indisputable fact az human as man HIM
DprtTct HUMANITY.
The question Of rank is not admissible here
As well debate the relative rank of the centripe.
| tai and centrifugal forces, which working togeth.
er move the earth through its annual orbit
Woman is the centripetal force Of the social
world, drawing it continually to the great centres
Of home and hearen. Man is the centrifugal
power, impelling societ, onward along the paths
of art, commerce and empire 1t is the recpro-
cal and coupter-balancng play of both these
forces that holds the world in place. and fills both
home and heaven with the music cf the spheres
The purposes Of education are three fold:
l.t To develop the germ into the full grown
being-to unfold its powers into well balanced
and maturest strength
ID To furnish the mind with the keya Of
knowledge-witb the elementary ideas which
NAV serve az food for It's thou chts. ard material
for its work
Sd To inspire 'he heart and inlay the charac
fer with those sentiments and practical beliefs
which lie at the source Of orr actions To in
weave with the pupils character real nobility OF
soul, generous devotion to truth, unselfsh love
brave. self reliant. pure and benevolent life
this is the central aim and Growing work Of the
true teacher.
First then, in the education Of woman. a. of
man, We are TO seek the same development of
the natural powers. The same training is neces-
sary in the Improvement Of both the same world
of truth lies open to each. and ca h must come
TO know it by the same intellectual processes
1t is true that the type of development will not
he the same in both, but these differences need
not be provided for in the process OF instruction
any more than ~e need to provide different food
TO nourish the bodies of the male ard female
The discipline and development of the female
mind should also be continued unit. full growth
is attained
The centripetal force should be augmented
equally with the centrifugal Our natural life is
seeking too much the street, the stump, the con-
vention. 1t lives toe much in railroads and to.
tells, and who has not noticed the gradual dis4p.
pearance from among US of the old, domestic
virtues? The battle cry of modern battlefelds
is not " Strike! for your affairs and your fires"
but Strike for the west, or for better wages"
Let education develop women until Lucy Stones
and Antoinette Browns need no longer resort to
the forum to seek dominion which has fed
from the home circle.
Let il not be suspected that with any narrow.