Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-05
TIE RUTLAND WEEKLY HERALD THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1870.

the provident intellect of the male.
In the originating and in the develop
ment of these elements, out of which the
structure Of civilization is chiefly reared
that exalted intellectual capacity is re.
quired that is known as scientific and
philosophical ability. In the presence of
these elements that surround as on every
hand-each asserting its origin and de-
velopment from the intellect of the male
it may be safely assumed that the in
tellect of the female is utterly destitute
of those high intellectual powers which
characterize the nature of the provident
agent and philosophical ability
Of those that assert to the contrary
would demand the proof
Where is the existing form of govern
ment, the system of language or the litera.
ture that owes in any appreciable degree
its outlines or its characteristic features
to the intellect of the female?
Where is the single eminent female his
torian, b;egrapher or philosopher in all
the ages of the past? Where is the sin
gle epic poem of merit that her intellect
has produced?
Where is the single valuable invention
or discovery-the element out of which
the present existing fabric Of civilization
is chiefly reared-that owes its origin and
development to her intellect Even
where her sphere most closely approx
mates that of the male she is powerless.
Until supplied by the intellect of the
male, she was unable to escape from the
chains and dungeons of drudgery in her
own sphere, through the aid of such ap-
plianees as the sewing and knitting ma
| chimes, the culinary apparatus, and a
thousand other equally important devices.
To assume that the intellect of woman
possesses latent powers that have not in
exceptional instances exhibited them
selves during the last two thousand years,
is an assertion at once supremely and con-
temptibly false and silly. Thus we find
lin practical results) the physical and in
tellectual powers of the male to be supe-
rior to those of the female, the same that
we found his capacity for physical strength
and endurance, and for intellectual effort,
superior to her own.
Though the intellect of the female is
wanting in that high intellectual power
that characterizes the provident agent,
still it possesses other high and noble
gifts, of which the intellect of the male is
destitute.
An emotional capacity as wide and as
deep as the ocean, and as full of suscepti-
bility as its surface to reflect tho sunshine,
to mirrow the stars, to be rippled by the
breeze, Or to be reused into angry noun
tain waves by the storm, is a wondrous
and most divine gift pervading the weak
ness, the gentleness, the beauty and grace
of woman's nature. Without this gift,
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elements of weakness, gentleness, beauty
and grace, woman could never be wife,
a loved and loving wife, mother, a loved
and loving mother, and in the economy
of nature the human race must possess
both To the intellect of woman, the in
| tricate processes of reason are unmeaDing
and inexplicable; it voluntarily and in
stinotively reaches its conclusions; and
to every problem within its natural
sphere of action the answer is correct, for
it is nature that answers.
! The combination and arrangement OF
the elements supplied by the provident
intellect of the male into a form radient
with grace and beauty-into a social struc-
| ture that next to Heaven Is dear to the
human heart-the ever welcome, dearly
loved, sacred home, the history of the past
and experience of the present, without a
single exception affirms as the natural
function of the intellect of the female in
| the economy of human life.
| Thus the sacred social fabric, home, the
best expression of Heaven that earth con-
tails, and among the threads of whose
! texture CLEAN the brightest Jewels that
adorn human life, is seen in the hands OF
woman, growing each day brighter and
richer in design, or becoming each day
impaired in beauty and lustre in proper
ton as she weaves the gem strung golden
threads as they come from the provident
hand of the male according to the pat
terms of almost divine grace and beauty
embodied in her own nature.
! The lover with his fortune, capabilities
and ambitions in his hands, as poor and
unworthy gifts, kneeling before his mis-
tress the husband, willing to sacrifice
| fortune, health and even life to secure the
peace and happiness of his home idol; the
babe, soothed only by mothers gentle
ness; the child, yearning for mothers
smile; the gentle, soothing, inestimable
attraction that binds the members of the
social systorn around the central shining
orb-the mother-without which all is
darkness, chaos and ruin, are the eloquent
witnesses that testify of the vastness OF
woman's native sphere of action, and her
unrivalled influence in shaping the desti-
nv of the human race.
Though the giant powers and the pro
found wisdom of the male may achieve
prodigies; though they may gather into
a single, unbound harvest sheaf all that
may be wrested from Nature that will
conduce to human happiness and prosper.
ity, still, without the hand of woman tc
give it form of beauty and comeliness
with the social bond, the effort would be
fruitless and vain.
Everywhere in civilized society-the
only condition in which human nature
exhibits the highest degree of happiness
and prosperity-it may be assumed with
out fear of contradiction, that the intel
lect of the male provides the elements
while that of the female builds. Thus
Nature has made the one dependent upon
the other, and confers happiness on each
only az they materially seek each other's
aid
Thus is constituted the strong tie Of
mutual dependence and interest. Besides
this bond, Nature has bound the sexes to-
gether with the stronger tie of Passion
The bond of passion serves as a capital IL
Illustration of the differential elements
physical and mental, entering into the
constitution of the sexes.
In the mental condition which is termed
possession, which is merely desire tc
possess some object, there is in the action
of the male and female intellect, SO far as
the nature of the coveted object is con
oerned, the widest difference. We find
on inquiry that nature has implanted il
both the male and female intellect a de-
sire to possess, for the sake of companion
ship, intellectual and physical qualities
in the person and intellect of the opposite
sex, that are the counterpart of those il
it's own nature. So we find in natura
choice the complex element of force
volume and capacity, and that of weak
ness, gentleness, beauty and grace, pos
sessipg the strongest attractions or affinity
for each other.
A true classification of the intellect o.
the sexes gives the following varieties
Two masculine, two feminine, and one