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broad and Ineligible basis. He does
not coufue HIMSELF to settling the ques-
ton whether women shall take part in
politics, vote, hold Office, and have
property entirely free from the control
Of their husbands but he investigates
the causes of the present position Of the
female sex in its social and political as
poets, aud thence deducss his concld'
sion that that sex is in all respects the
equal Of the male, and therefore entitled
to precisely the same rights. There are
two views which may be taken of this
subject, one Of which is at variance
with the other ; but neither can BIO
wholly ignored ; and this is the cause Of
so much discussion. The ono is tho
scriptural, the other is the philosophi-
cal, which may also be called the his
,orical and the physiological. The scrip
tural doctrine as to the position of wo-
man with regard to man, is very plainly
laid down in the following passages
In the narrative of the Fall (Gen. iii.
ICY, part Of the sentence pronounced
upon Eve is {" thy desire shall be to thy
husband, and he shall rule over thee"
bu. it should be observed that in the
Elohim account Of the creation Of man,
not a word is said about the Garden Of
Eden, tho forming of Eve out Of
the rib of Adam, nor the temptation
and fall Of the first parents; oil
that is said is that God created man
male and female, and blessed them, and
called their name Adam (Geu. Y, 10y.
Thus, one account Of the origin Of man
is in favor Of the subsection of woman,
while the other appears to favor the
doctrine of her oneness and equality
with her husband, the name adam
being used in a collective sense. The
Apostle Paul accepted the former doc
trine. In l. Cor. ri. g.: he says: "But
| would have you to know that the head
of every man is Christ; and the head of
the woman is the man." Aud in ". 8
and 0, he adds: "For the man is not
Of the woman, but the Woman Of the
man. Neither was the nan created for
tho woman, but the woman for the
man." In Ephes. vi. ~ %, he says:
"wives, submit yourselves unto your
husbands, as unto the Lord, for the
husband is the head Of the wife, eve
as Christ is the head Of the Church."
The Same teaching is repeated in Col.
iii. IS, and still more emphatically In
Tim. ii. II, IL. The Apostle Peter
holds the same language: "Likewise,
70 wives, be in subsection to your own
husbands" n Peter, iii. ~. This i, the
substance Of the apostolic doctrine, but
it is remarkable that the Founder Of
Christianity lays down no law on the
subject, except the general one Of kind.
mesa towards each other; honce, the
Scriptuial argument rests mainly on the
teachings of Peter and Paul.
Mr.. Mill takes up the philosophical
view. He turns to history, and finds
that from the earliest ages the world
has been governed mainly by brute
force, and that those who possessed
most Of this usurped authority over
others. In such o contest woman
could not strive with man; sho, there
fore, had to bide her time until reason
assert its sway over mere
strength, and that time has only just
arrived. He contends, therefore, that in
order to ascertain what woman is
really capable of it, it is just and neces-
sary to give her powers full scope, and
be believes that whom that shall be
done, she will surprise man by the de-
Of faculties for tho posses
zion of which but little credit has hith.'
,rto been given her. Hence, society
will DO an immense gamer, not merely
the better direction Of its impulse,
but 10 actual solid advantages, such as
good government, wiser economy, and
more enlightened employment Of the
mind. Marriage, according to Mr..
Mill, should be a voluntary association
between q mar and a woman, in which
there should be no mastsrship on either
side, but 10 which there should be equal
partnership. He accounts for the fact
that nc uni has produced q work of
first rank in philosophic science or art,
by saying that it is only within the last
three generations that women have be-
gun to try their hands at it. It's singu-
lar that he should have made such .
a mistake as this with regard to music,
a science and an art in which women
havo always participated, and in the
cultivation Of which they have of late
bestowed a disproportionate amount Of
their time, but in which they have as
yet produced few frst-rate compositions.
He attributes too much to mere oduca-
ton, ignoring the fact that many Of the
greatest men the world has seen have
to eminence, some without educa-
ton; and some in spite of it. No
amount of it could produce a Shaks-
peare or a Newton genius is the gift
Of God, aud If He has not bestowed 1t
upon woman hitherto in as large a
measure as He has upon men, doubtless
it is for a very sufficient reason. Every
one should read Mr.. Mills work none
eau fail to be struck with the force of
his arguments and the lueidity Of his
style, even though differing in opinion
from him.
Tue United States Marshal at New
York, on the 80 of August, seized Is
yunboats constructed for the Spanish
Government. It is charged that they