The Cairo daily bulletin., 1872-08-04


teachers in cases requiring quick judg
ncnt. In another place he exalis and
magnihesthc value of that power ofjudg-
ing through the Imagination which "wo..
men possess in prc-eminent degree.
Hszlitt asserts women 10 have often more
Of what Il called good sense than mon
having fewer prctensions, being less impli .
Gated In theories. and Judging Of objects |
more from their immediate and involun- /
tsry impressions on the mind, and, there
fore, he contends, more truly and natur- /
ally. They cannot reason wrong; for
= they do not reason at ALL Elsewhere, I
, again, he insists on the prc-eminencc of
women in tact and insight into character
--on their being quicker than men to find
out n pcdant, prctcndcr, blockhead.a
A. before, the explanation he offers is, that
they trust more 20 first impressions and
natural indications of things, without
troubling themselves with learned theory
}. of them whereas men. affecting greater
ID, gravity, and thinking themselves bound
justify their opinions, are afraid to form
any judgement at all, without the formal
ity Of proofs and definitions, and blunt the
Y edge Of their Understandings, lest they
should commit some mistake; they stay
for facts till il il too late to pronounce on
p the characters. He calls women natural
e. ly physognomists, and men phrcnologists
the former judging by sensations, the
u latter by rules.
Doctor Aubertin, in White Lies, tells
n. the ladies cf Beaurepaire how often he has
seen science baflled, and unframed intcli-
D., gences throw light upon hard questions !!
''and your sex in particular has luminous
:. instincts and read things by flashes that
we men miss with microscope" Proba-
bly, multiplicity of parallel passages
IL. -. n,, Xl,.. ..C
y Mr.. Charles Rcade. Here il one from
griffith Ga,nt, referring to GATHERINGS
conviction of there being q duel afoot :
"and indeed the intelligent of her sex do
sometimes put this and that together, and
m spring to n Just, but obvious inference, in
~, way that looks to slower and safer rcas-
bo oner like divinations.'
H. Mr. Carlyle afiirms of "female intellects
bc when they are good, that nothing equals
=. their acuteness, and that their rapidity Is
~ almost excessive. The most obvious char
III acteris,ics of the feminine intellect, accord
,n ing 10 Mr. Caldwell Roscoe, are delicacy
be of perceptive power and rapdity of move
=, ment. lie asserts that n woman sees u
e. thousand things which escape a man that
~. physically even. she is quicker sighted
o. that mentally she takes in many more
o. impressions in the same time than man
n does. Moreover, that women differ from
n, men in having far more varied, subtle, and
,y numerous inlcts to knowledge; upon
ct which they rely-not caring to remember
40 and arrange previous experience, as man
~ does. The female intellect "walks direct
a, " and unconsciously, by more delicate in
N sight and n more refined and more
trusted intuition. To an end t. which mems
=. minds grope carefully and ploddingly
n along Rousseaus Julie owns to having
m often been at fault in her reasonings, never
:, in her instructive convictions. In his
,s Enl,ic, the art of reading what is passing
- in the hearts of men, is distinctively AS
:, signed by Jean Jacques to ''the sex rs an
:, dsS chorGctercs distHctitS dp serc. 1t is
!, innate in women, he declares. nor do men
I ever possess it in the same degree. Pre-
ns sencc Of mind, penetration. subtlety or
n observant insight, these he declares to be
10 Ia science des fcmmes. Men philoso-
m phiZe best on the human heart, he argues
M but women will best read the hearts of
n men. And, by the verdict of a latter-day
40 poet, the hearts of her sisters too:
so Trust women, opinion for once. Women
IS learn.
~ BY an instinct men never attain. TO discern
., Each other, true natures.
r. Men are deceived in their judgments of
N others by u thousand causes, Hartley Cole
C. ridge has remarked among which he
n enumerates their hopes, their ambition,
d, their vanity, their antpathies, their party
feelings, their nationally, but above all,
~ their "presumptuous reliance on the ratio
ou c,~aiive understanding their disregard
g OF prcs"ntiments and unaccountable inn
~ pressiohs' and their vcin attempts to re-
of duce everything to rule and measure.
" Women, on the other hand, they be- very
DE women are, on his showing, seldom de.
ps ceived except by love, compassion, or re-
mt ligious sympathy. "Thc craftiest Iago
of cannot win the good opinion of true wo-
cr man, unless he approach her as II lover, an
ny unfortunate, or religious confdant. But
Hartley would have it distinctly remem-
IA bered, that this superior dsccrnment in
10 character is merely a female instinct, aris.
I'd. ing from more delicate sensibility, "A lin
'ly er tact, clearer intuition, and natural
nj adherence OF every appearance of evil
I'D II Is sense, he maintains, which belongs
in only to the innocent quite distinct from
the tact of experience. III, therefore, la
dies without experience attempt to. judgc,
10 draw conclusions from premises, and
give reason for their sentiments there is
nothing in their sex to preserve them from
he error. To Schiller TheAla, Max, III the
ms Walleasteins Tod, has recourse for guild
lv ance in matter where he feels that pure
m. instinct and instructive purity, must be
an the best guide
In What other angel seek |: TO thi. heart
en-. To this unerring heart. will submit it,
On And Theklas answer is prompt;
ost Oh. thy own
.be Hath long ago decided. Follow thou
,ho Thy hearts first feeling
Ae l. ii possible that that can be the right
c", The which thy tender hear; did not al Ir,
zen Detect and seize with instant impulse,
M Samuel Rogers testified, saying, tina,
'ur 'ur frequently, when doubtful how to act in
'hc matters of importance, lie had received
rs, more useful advice from women than from
INC men. "Women have the understanding
,p- of the heart; which is better that that OF
h' the head One of Ben .Jonson's soul,
ul masculine pays this homage to woman.
y kind
~, Love, then. doth work in you what Reasol,
w doth
t'' In lis. here only lies The difference
ne our wait the lingering steps Of Age and
- Time;
nat But the woman's soul 4. ripe when il i,
ng ,g"ne
nd 30 That !, IL what we call learning, j.
)Nnlty in YOU. whose operations
lmpatien, of delay, 10 out>trip time
m In the opinion of the Autocrat Of the
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