The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-12-31


analysis, girls excel boys !, l de
+ ~ any weak woman opposed TO
woman suffrage, TO equal in stupid
ity this precious rehash.
Homo too. has been inside of a
school room, has listened to recita-
tions, in fact has enjoyed special
facilities and large experience. to
enable him to give a pretty fair
opinion regarding the relative in
tellectusl capacities of the sexes.
and, without going into any nice
DETERMINATIONS, his evidence is
that the mental differences of the
two sexes. are little, if any greater
than the intellectual inequalities Of
individuals of tue same sex. and
that in cases III which opportunities
and inducements have been equal,
girls are the equals of boys in the
heavier brain work. And finally,
the editor closes his review with q
prediction that the lecture will
add much to the already deserved
high reputation of its author
Whew! 1t is difficult to realize
that the editor is not joking in his
wind up.
I do not know the famousI? Ice
turer, but I'll guess his has not
been either a generous or liberal
education--that mentally there is
som ething the matter with him
that intellectually he is unsymmet-
rically arranged, and to be mor1
pointed, to diagnose more closely,
and to deal less after the fashion
of the Delphic oracle, will haz
,rd the opinion, that with slight
| temptation, with a little induce
ment, he would have a hankering
after quackery! and I'll leave the
decision to a majority of the reg
ular profession, in the city in which
be is practicing. A sufficient re-
ply to all the nonsense Of the lee
turer and Of the reviewer, would
be, that while they are opposing
woman entering the profession Of
n edieine, on the ground of mental
incapacity and physical inability,
and perhaps for other reasons Fl.
she is making and has made sue
cess as physician, and that she is
doing it more and more, that she
is 10y tue marked success in the
experiment proving to the world
| that she is specially fitted for that
very work, that in several notable
instances women have graduated
with the very highest honors-as
witness the present year in the city
of Paris, famous for the high char
acter of its M dical schools. The
result isijust as l would suppose.
There is c speculi4r propriety &c
say the least, in woman having a
oman physician. Woman is more
sympathetic, moro intuitional, can
with equal knowledge diagnose
| quicker, is 8 better nurse, and,
what both the DIR. and his reviewer
agree in. she is more moral, not so
brutal anG.coaHse in her nature.
Some infirm men and weak wo
inen--sane, rational and even sen
siblc in other respects--on the wo
man question exhibit signs OF men
tai obiiqu;ty, different ones in diff
| fereat -ways--so1le eXclaim sick
woman she is getting out of her
sphere wrap her up in newspa-
per- 1T is agin the Bible'--others,
that 'women:s head is less than
man s, that she,can learn faster,
bat don't get the learning il her
head in the right way, and hence,
can not retain it as we'll as man,
,'that size is angular and strong
minded Others again, that
her present duties take up all her
time Tin dressing, visiting, gossip
ing that the ennobling labors of
dom este life absorb all her atten-
tention,' that she is clamoring for
sue knows not what
Well, all thissis very fair ex-
hiktion Of argum entT?I in a cause
that don't admit of a very sensible
support. Infrm men and weak
women arrayed in hostility to wo-
man suffrage, belong to that unfor-
tunately too large class Of persons
wEo are always looking behind
them--gazing enraptared at the
distinguishing the present, and
egardless oil the future
lis we'll to gather wisdom from
the past, and by its lessons Of ex-
perience to avoid its errors, guard
against its vices and folIies, and to
shun its evil customs. bat to- be so
enamored with it's beaEiesi to be
so constantly 'captivated with its
charms, and to be SO absorbed
with looking behind, as like the ia
bled Orpheus of old to lose the pos
session and the advantages of the
present, and the reason able promi-
ses OF the future, are neither indi-
cative Of good judgment nor OF
sound reason, and if the everlast-
ing faulty Of gazing rearward,
should have no worse effect on our
weak sisters than to metamorphose
them into pillars Of salt, they will
not wholly have lost their SAVIOR,
and they yet may be we'll preserv-
ed for the day of Resurr ection,
whence, ir is to be 'keped they may
emerge with minGs more sane.
| But [ must close by giving our
women the promised hearing, and
reserve comments for a future Cs
say, when some Of the names Of
the petitioners will be given.
The Petition of the undersign-
ell to the Congress- OF the United
States, protesting against the ex-
tension OF 6Effraoe to women