Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1870-04-20
For the FIeeman. COY
Things Old and New on the Gsinan
Question

Question.
1.-THE one [sex should be active at ktrong
the other passive and weak it is kessary
the one should have both the powelsnd the
will, and that the other should mte little
resistance. This principle being IS b+shed
it follows that woman is expressly Smed to
please the man.
'sIt being once demonstrated thai Jan and
woman are not, nor ought to be, cAtituted
alike in temperament and charack it fol
lows of corrse thai they should ntbe edu,
Gated in the same manne<..T he4neatior
of the women should be always stlEe Z
the men. To please, to be usef4g ns, =
make us love and estec1s>-lsm. - ~,
when young, and take care OF US v y = y =
up, to advise, to console us, 10 re- 5,t ~
lives easy and agreeable these azeH shonI.
Of women at all times, and wlfA&t
be taught in their infancy"
The first and most important t,,ess q .
in woman is good-nature, or ~
temper"
q For my part, would have .sIon,s
Englishwoman cultivate her agressa FL
IN order TO please her future husbas~fe an,
italics are Ours)-'' with as much k,;vate
assiduity as young Circassiar1 "a &C.,,
hers to fit her for the harem q
bashaw.''
/" The principal object of mans o Oar.
should be what is useful, that of
what is agreeable"
- Every daughter ought to be o. - s =
religion as her mother, and everI g.
of the same religion as her hu a.
though such religion should be an
docility which induces the N
daughter to submit to the order -
takes away, in the sight of God,
ality of their error. As they are -
capacity to judge for themselves, g.
TO abide by the decision of their aS ~
husbands as confidently as by th q ~
church. As authority ought to regS,S,l ,
religion of the women, it is not so .ol;ai
explain to them the reasons for -
as TO lay down precisely the ted
to believe
1t is evident what this VIII ',1 .
would have been upon the questis w
man Suffrage, had that been ~.
him. Indeed, Madame de Stast
" lie has endeavored to preven
interfering in public affairs
brilliant part in the theateln -
=" Butwho is this writer,
DR.. Todd, nor DIR. Bushnt -r
one of the several eminent :.
Ds., who have entered thsli1 u ""
holy zeal, in opposition
against Nature"
The writer is Jean Jacqa I ~
whom Rev Philip Schaff, b. ~
fcssOrS U the Theological Semins . -"e
csrsbs - uu6.s did SSeh
order n!lneeH HIS LIE y n, b BY
series of blunders, caprices, glaris cons
tencies, and violent changes from WINS
to Romanism from Romanism tot ldelit
from infidelity to transient belief. -
was one of the most eloquent and ia inatin
but also one of the most para PAL a
dangerous of writers. - : He 4 be me
charming pictures of female ID ess, a
married, after long contin | int
cor r., his servant"
NOW we do not pretend ht o
whose name is closely linked that
Voltaire as a promoter of skept q Fran
and one who was himself pr an ID,
cate of " free-love," may 10, De shele
have entertained some views we
correct We will not now stor hte
that the ideas presented in the quo
tions are not among the few twort
ideas which j. j. Rousseau has I'D beft
the world.
We simply wish to bring these he Is to I
notice Of some excellent people WI ,A.se eai
to have conclusions drawn ad7sIs.o I
worthiness of the Woman SuffrgU Reform
from the assertion that some of i3'advoca
hold loose views of marriage and the pivi
Word and we trust that they LII not,
this juncture, throw away the bethod
reasoning with which they Ia, attic
endeavored to serve their cause. ~