New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-13

| smiling verdure. So woman holds the home while
man sweeps onward with her in his car of progress.
Man controls the car woman should control the
home Man controls on the external plane, woman
should control on the internal.
In all organizations solar, human, social wher-
| ever there is a division of forces and interests,
there can be no harmony among them, without
balance of power There must be an equalization of
the elements of life and power in the human system.
or discord and disease will be the inevitable result.
But in human society, as now organized, there is no
| balance of power between man and woman, and OF
course no harmony. Man. with the control of labor,
and the power of the sword, has usurped all the ma
tural rights of woman. He has decided to himself her
person. her children, her earnings well as the
earth beneath her feet He has made this appropra'
ton without her consent, and maintains it by the
power of the purse. But society," argues the author,
is bound TO provide every woman with home. The
property of the nation should be taxed for that pur-
pOse Her home should be under the supervision OF
the State and hence the necessity that woman should
vote She must have a voice III the general supervi-
sion of her home besides being its individual mis-
tress and manager.
Every governmental order should have its femi-
nine as we'll as its masculine head corresponding to
| the family. The feminine head should be central,
directive and contrOlling the masculine, external,
dlStrlDutlVe executive, gwen
mental orders of society, woman has the power of
control because she holds the heart of the people as
the left side holds the heart of the human organize
ton. Woman is no less necessary to the head of the
governmental ORDERS than the feminine law of rea-
son is te the head of the human system or rotation
to the solar Her judgment, wisdom. feminine con-
science, and self-reliance would form suitable
balance to man in the councils OF government ana
insured the enjoyment of social harmony.
In the course of the volume the author engages
in the discussion of several collateral questions
which may we'll tempt the curiosity OF the reader,
but concerning which we can find no room for de-
tails Many of her views, like those on which we
have dwclt are open to controversy, and certainly
differ widely from those which generally prevail IN
Church and State. They are calculated to stimulate
reflection and though at war with the received con-
ventional ideas, are put forth by no means IN
spirit of defiance or wanton taste for destructive
ness but the sincerity and modesty OF their tone
NAV challenge kindly hearing. if they fail, rs they
probably WILL to compel the assent of the reader.
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW ON MIR. EMERSON
The new number of the North British Re
view" has noticoabespaper on Ralph Waldo Elmer
son. whose name the writer regards as the sign
post of an interesting stage in the progress OF Trans
atlantic thought" and curious chapter in the history
OF ElNSllClhlH W btltCt lew ltudbi i"4' 'H'
article as illustrations of the prominence which has
been attained by the Sage of Concord in the con-
temporary European mind, and the odd blending OF
fact and fancy in foreign estimates of his merits:
MR. FMERSON's STYLE.
As regards form, Mr.. Emerson is the most unsysten-
attic OF writer's The concentration OF bis style resembles
that OF classic but he has little constructyeness. and
as with the others who have adopted the aphorstc mode
unity to richness of detail His essays bundles Of
loose ideas, tackled together only 10y common title,
handfn scraps laid by siugly taken ont IN mass
aud tossed down before his audience like the misceane
Gus contents OF cOnjuror hat He delights IN proverbs
and quotations. which IN general marvelOusly apt
but lis accuracy is often fault and III his tendency 10
exergerafon he Is an American OF the Americans. lie
loves contradiction for his sake, and always pre-
fers surprise TO an argument His elGIams are series
of electric shocks, and though Is more prevail
ingly sincere it Is sometimes hard say whether or not
lie wholly in earnest for vein Of soft IRONY his only
manifestation Of humor seems TO undefhe many OF ne
strongest coors the opposite sides Of the antnoes OF
life, leaving TO his reader TO stIlke the Dahce; AoE
highly educated English writer's at the present day, one
Of the most frequent defects indecson Oppressed ~
the fear Of ctcs, ana almost beWlseIta 9y ter owl
many sided knowledge, they hover about their subjects
a. reluctant to grappe with them ana whe.e We arc
most anxious 70 hear their answers, give lle l1sI
tain sounds Cautions reservations snoihoY 'mc1 -
rather than at IT, and although they are d Nocs ~ 5
taste, mental cramp is apt 70 clip and cur.al I1eir
he sacrifices everything to drcctncss aud decision Cd
ects TO but" and however" aud maintas that lNC
advice he rolls ont his paradoxcs in solid column
with not the nfrmlty OF doubt ana WIN an r oi H
charm of trace without grandeur tcrse refinement .
,Ire frncant and suf h Illustrations are among bis
main attractions. Speaking OF agriculture N the
English Traits he remarks, England is garden under
an asb-coored shy, the fields have been rolled aud
cOmbed till they appear 10 have been finished with
pencil instead Of plow" This criticism has been al,
piled TO his own sentence The ldeas tey enDOuy dIc
the scale Of continent in form they are adapted Tor
cabinet Of curiositles They are sweeping geheIalla
lions given IN essences ana emDody!ng various @ndouIs
Of wisdom, from striknglY original Thoughts TO oIacuar
commOnplaces which at Their worst are Only one Stage
removed above those OF our " ProyerDa PhloSopy.
OF his pithy and penetrating notS-they 90 iOl lose 20
sctting-we may select few characiersuc eNalles;
Other are lenses through which we read our own
minds. The great man Is he who, IN the midst OF tIe
crowd keeps with perfect sweetness he huepehaehce
oil solitude" eve grant tina! human IRE j. mean Dut now
did we fad ont that II was mean what is inc uiyefs
sense Of want and Ignorance bnt the fine inuendo by
which the soul makes its enormous claimP PopulaIiiy
OF the gods open your Marcus Antoninus" "a iust
thinker will allow full swing to ms ekepticis ar my
So y SG The English lave tGricscs Instinct
to hS@ 9 oa 10 SaS T som Ell meet the @ Of
Iacedemon in clcrgymans eye" - fly is AS untamabc
rs hyena" Every man is consumer and ought TO be
Mr. Emerson's most elaborate criticisms arc manly
composed of the mOsaic-work and III the long run
get tined OF those perpetual Jerks HIS style al armed
with points and antitheses like the brte5 of ahedgehog
rotundity stH dcsiderates II reminds US too frequently
Of tie Iiskng movements OF ballet dancer ana our
author Hlutudes are not away VI ~ ~ i
His illusions are sometimes fareiched ana ms general
naturalness does not him from occasional anecta
tons ana displays OF pedtTy. In coming WORKS; as
ME . ncartineT ted incline ,fimoter" "ant
pode 'partiast he far from fecltous Minute critics
will find that tins dsdan OF rule extends 20 contempt OF
OF the rules " grammar in his employment OF such
form sined," and his continual use OF shall for
twill" More serious defects his misaplcauon OF
terms as when he speaks o. the strong sclfcOmpiGc6t
Luther and the want Of taste dignity or moderation IN
such an expression as the following; Truth - such
yaway, such an untransportabe aud m6qrTeatea com
modify, that il is Us Lrd u ca light The beauty that
In the yellow afternoons Of October who could
clutch f" "Tbe fathOmess powers OF gravity and
chemistry, and them OF ic pTeeItsng within us IN
their highest form" why preexlsng Napoleon, when
spying the Alps by sunset on the sclan sea THE
world spirit good Swimmer. he snaps has Uger at
laWs hero becomes "a bore