The Van Buren press., 1867-11-15

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that he mind Of woman Is equal TO ours,
--nay, il you please, superior. 1t is quick.
ey, more flexible, more elastic. | lce,lsinly
have never Teen boys learn languages or
mathematics, up to 3 certain point. no last
or as easy as some girls. WOman's intu-
tions also are tar better than oars, She
reads ehai seter quicker, CONES 10 conclU'
sions quicker, and II must make admls-
sion on the moment, | had mUch rather
nave the woman's decision than MAS.
She has intultions given her FOR hor own
protection which we have not. Sue has
delicacy Of taste to which we can lay 10
claim. "Why, then" my lady reader
will say, "why can't we be independent oi
mann for this is the gist of the whole sub
ect. lreply. you can't, FOR two reasons
tirst. God never designed you should, and
secondly, your own deep instincts are in
the way. God mover designed that woman
should occupy the same sphere as man, be-
cause he has given her physical organiza-
,ion so refined and delicate tbatlt can never
bear the stain which comes upon the
lrougher, coaiser nature Of man. He has
hedged her in by laws which no desires or
etfolts can alter, We, sons OF dust move
slower; we creep, where you bound to tue
head oi the stairs at single leap. And
now bear with me, aud keep good usturod,
while show you, what you, dear ladies',
cannot DO, and God don't ask You to do.
/. You cannot invent. There ale all
manner OF inventions in our age. steam.
railroads. tclcsraphing, machinery Of al,
Kinds. o!icu i've nnndgeda ana !iity weekly
| applications for patents at the Patent OF.
tice, but among them ali no female oppi-
csnts. Iou have sewing machines almost
numberlesS. knitting machines, washing,
iron, aud churnlns machines -but Lever
heard of one that was the emauaton of the
female mind. Did you? Why sew, or
wash, or card OF your fingers, rather than
to invent, II this was your gift q? The old
spinning wheel and the old cardiug appa-
ratus have gone up, but not by woman's
invention. | suppose this rowor was de-.
MED you, lest 1t should take you out of
your most important splerc--as / shall
show.
2. Iou cannot compete With men in n
long course OF mental labor. Your deli
cate organization never has and never can
bear the study by which you can become
Newtons, LaPlaces, or Bowditthcs in
mathematics or astronomy. The world
never has seen, and never expects, to see,
woman cxcelling in architecture Neither
in ancien! or modern times has she one
monument of this kind, showing master
ship. You do not find them in ancient
Corinth, old Athens, great Rome, or in any
city of the old or new world.
SO of painting and scu pturc. Iou need
not tell US what you are hereafter to do
but you have never yet shown a Phdias. q
Raphael, Michael Angelo, or Csno,a.
You cannot point to woman who car
pretend to stand by the side Of Homer,
Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton. The world
has never seen female historian who came
near the first rank. And even in cooking
and n millinery, as is we'll known, men
must and do stand at the head of these oc.
cupations.
But, you will perhaps say. ave have
never had a fair chanco--a fair fight in the
field. We have been held down by prcju.
dice. and tyranny, and public opinion
against us, and all that" Suppose it be
so, fair one. there is one field you have had
to yourself, and nobody has lifted against
you one finger. mean that for the last
half century, we, cruel men, have invented
manufactured, and bought, and brought
home, the piano, and YOU have had it ali
to yourselves. What is the result? It's
that the master performers, and teachers
and musicians, are men---is il not Nay
have you never seen thc gill thumpiug anJ
drumming her piano for years, under the
best teachers, and yet her brother come.
along and take itrp. and .withoct any teach
ing, soon go in advance Of the sister,
have seen it often lnnone oil these depart,
ments can woman compete withman. Not
because her Immortal mind is in,erpr,-
far from it,-but because her bodily Or
ganization cannot endure the pressure o.
Nonliuueu a'lu loNS laOoT rs we can. ~
may deny this, an] aeclare it'is hot 80
|, but the history Of our race, aud the stat,
OF The world now show that it is so.
f don't say that -hepa aud thee woman
cant endure mAth Ava lthg but they are
rare exceptions Did you ever know Ia
woman who could endure beng ;carlMr
till seventy, Ave as men often do? The
fact that in medical colleges, books, and
practice, woman is recognized as having a
peculiar organization, requiring the most
careful and gentle treatment, aad the con
sent of the world, all 60 to show that hsl
bodily powers are not able to epdure Ike
those OF the other sex, The wheels anl
workmanship are too delicate to be driven
with the handspring Of the old fashioned
bull's-eye. Ifwha) have said seems to
want gallantrv. / reply that it is not gal
lantrv that am now niter, but facts -
truth,-the sphere and power and glory Of
woman. BE patient have Somc mic.
and pretty thingst to say, some garlonds to
weave. after | have led you to see the great
facts NJ vunr leinty As IN uyon,,r a