Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-08-17


Thou my star: sweetly sleep,
Peaceful a the stars of Heaven.
Breezes light, thee cares;
Fan thy brow and lit thy hair.
Birdie sleep, while they press
| Ruby lips with touch of air.
Baby sleep: while the bloom
Of thy fresh life opens bright,
Loves sunlight Danish gloom.
Guard thee e'er from sorrow's blight
| Sleep my love, blessings e'er
Fall on thee, thy pure heart keep
! Baby dear. mammals near
Watching DER thee; sleep babe, sleep
IS WOMAN THE EQUAL
OF MAN?
From the Baccalaureate Ser
mon of President Raymond
of Vassar College, June 18,
1871. ..
OF all the mistakes committed by
those who in this age are advocating
the cause of woman, and striving to
enlarge her opportunities of devel-
opment and action,7 l think the
grayest is that of challenging an
issue on the broad declaration that
woman is the equaEof man. Not
that l doubt that, in some respects,
the declaration is eminently true, but
because l believe that, in others, it
is eminently false, and by It's am
biguity adapted to betray the indis
eliminating into false and hurtful
positiOns-positions which alarm
an honest and intelligent conserya-
tism, give ribald opposition abun
dant material for its warfare of
abuse, confuse the public judgment,
and set back indefinitely the prog
ress of true reform. 1t is one of
the blunders of that distinguished
Englishman who has volunteered to
champion your alise-Mr. John
Stuart NIL who, wi.h a genius for
specu htion .seo2nd hardly TO that Of
any living lnan IS ssineplarly de
fcient IN praetical sagacity, and has
never, in all his life, conducted a
practical issue to successful result;
it was a characteristic and fatal
blunder of his to have chosen for at
tack just that point of his adver-
sary's case at which it is most i'm
pregnable4 Gle sprinciple 9that, in
certain respects woman is, must be,
ought to be, subordinate to man.
As it is easy to show that woman
is in some respects, mans inferior,
and as that logically invalidates the
claim of absolute equality, an easy
victory is given into the hands of
all opponents. But, worse than this,
the desire and, determination to be
equal with men, inspires in many
the endeavor to be like men, and has
misled many to suppose that to be
tluetOA the rights 6f women,s they
must-eultivateH Inanishness in them
selves and others-must become
manish in their ways their talents,
their speech and manners and even
in their dress. A fatal blunder, in
deed, to disapprove the unquestion-
able inferiority of women in certain
respects by sacrificing her indispu-
table claim to superiority in others;
to blot out these distinctive traits
which even bad men have yielded
an instructive and irrepressible homi
age3 To outage The most sacred
sensibility OF good men and wise
women, and array 4 changeless Or
dinance of nature against its own
professed cause. The truth on this
subject is alike obvious and import
ant; that the woman is radically
and eternally different from the man;
different in organiZation-physical,
mental andnnoral- different in fune
tion, different in the modes and con
ditions of development. With the
basis of common humanity, in the
points in which they differ they still
are totally unlike-unlike not in
degree, but in kind, in essential ma
ture-so unlike that the chasm that
separates them can never be bridged
over, or by any amount of artificial
training be made appreciably less.
And as the woman is different
, ,iolli 'aU M iiian' 50 Is she reiaIeu "
li,ll' I I'll anis Is 1r'e on Che oCller sue
mutual relationship SO intimate and
vital that the existence of neither
is absolutely complete except with
al. d. l.
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ovation Of character from which
she NAV look down with pitvino and
belpful love ON him she calls bar
lord .Jesus said. uYp know thot
the princes of the Gentiles exercise
domain over them, and they that are
great exercise authority upon them.
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