, 1874-07-19
Nem2n-Sunrago as an Agency il the
" Development Of Woman IS
Human Being"
Woman's Inferfority in Fighting Power,
and Her Consequent Dependence
upon Those Possessing
That Power
The Law Of Compensation.--W oman's
Capabilities After the Period Of
Maternity Has Passed.
Eha May Then "Enter upon a New
Life, and Select Any Voca-
ton She Pleases."

ton She Pleases."
The Mutual Relations OF Elan ant
Woman.
To the Editor of 7As Chicago tribune:
sn: NY attempt to show the fa1laey Of tht
assumption, thnt woman holds al rights ant
privileges ''subject to the goodwill OF man
lin any sense in which be does not hold all right
and privileges subject to her good-wi1l) BY re
ducinS the assumption to an absurdity, does no
seem to hnye been understood
Permit me, therefore, to state my objections
to the assumption in more serious manner
md differently.
Han, though probably Less enduring than
WOMAN. is capable Of some sorts OF physical
activity from which woman ehrinks, aud Of
which she is perhaps incapable. He is also
to-day more fertile in resources aud better
fitted for the general work Of life than woman.
But man, as class of the genus homo.
CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT WOMAN;
and SO complex and close are tho relations OF
the sexes, not only in the same gssuo1aion, but,
through the action Of the laws Of inheritance, in
succeeding ones, that it is now genornlly adulit-
ted that. just in proportion "a woman il injured
man becomes dete1io7ated. For this, among 9TH
er reaEons, thinking people see that, whatever
may bo tho disposiion of indisidua.a, it Is not
possible thst man, as class, will ever willfulfy
aud consciously do anything to permanently In
ju1e the class, woman. And women need not
fear any direful eonEeque3ces from incu1ring
the disIlloasnre Of man, however much your
brave correspondent Ct last SUNDAY may find
qualification OF some masculine inet.ncts ic such
threats.
Furthermore,
IT Is NOT True
taat, "As re ascend in the scale of animal e1-
istenca, the dependence OF tile female upon the
male increases" Through the whole range Of
animal ldo there are no creatures among whom
the females are more eelf-suppcr:ing, 1ces sub
ject to, and more independent Of, the males.
thsn in the orders Hcrbiro1a and Carnivora, and
these are found directly below man in the class
Mammals. In ono of these orders. and, in the
family feHdn, or cnt-tr.be, there are Some
species in which the female adds, to her other
duties in the care OF her offspring aud self-sup-
port, increasing vigilance IN protecting her
young from the adult male.
Far below these creatures as they are ranked
by nssuralists, ls the class Aves. in some fam-
lies Of which tho female is aided bJ the malo in
her parental cares.
Permit me to roreat therefore, that the Law
OF your correspondent, that, u Is rise in the
scale Ct animal life, the differentiation of power
and consequent dependence OF the female upon
the male, increases, has no existence, except il
the iulaglnations of those who would perpsps
ike to discover it somewhere.
Again, it is no: true IN human society that tho
powor which permits the exercise of hitherto
denied right or has conferred q new privilege.
viii always or generally haye the power to re-
yssl the +' nghs Or privilege. Al human history
that tho members OF the English Parliament by
whose votes tho suffrage has been so much .e1-
tended in England during tue last quarter OF
century, could roassemble and repeal their past
legislation if they saw lit? Privileges of TINT
sort, once conferred upon class,
CAN SEyKR BE RECALLED.
except by the consent or indifference of the class
itself It is probable that there are IN the
United Ssases to-day AZ many voters who beheve
tnat thu extension OF the suffrage to nat1uahzed
citizens WAS 8 biunder, as thero were to favor
that extension in the first place. But, since tho
insanity OF hnow-Nothingisrn, no one is found
to publicly advocate an attempt to repeal it.
Similarly it would be impossible for man to
repeal the extepsion Of the suffrage to womaa
until women should themselves see it eea;rablo
to do 80. Nor indeed is it probable that man
can long refuse tho suffrage to woman after |
majority OF women shall have decided that tho
common veal requires woman's admission to it. |
Pending that tlme calm discussions of the |
question LII all its bearings should he quite in |
order.
And first although Of no paramount practical |
san psaslos upo.l out olinloa or tue Fs1ue OF the
euulte euaa. W aoaan, ot ~ oer aulnty 70 "1eo!v
e1e1e9se H. oo1aee up tA1s qaestaon OF tie otgan
OF
TEE DIFFERENTIATION OF sEx
N the genus homo. Lying, as it probably doeE,
fur back In the prehistoric experiences aud
struggles of the rsea to astain d foothold upon
the earth, demand to explain us origin in
newspaper-artcle il about as rational as to ask
to be told why nun exists ut all Each ma or
woman glands as the product OF vast series OF
sequences Of causes and effects, which have
acted upon the line Of organic life Of which the
is the latest result. In it's last anal
ysis the problem OF sex lke the nroblnn NJ !
existence, IS as yet une1plained But, concern
ing the urobabla oritin Of wonan,s nresant t
legal and socinl nasition. son,o thoochfa nonr
not bo asniss, 11'"'
HAN, it Is SUPPOSED. anr,cared unon the cart1,
ut time when its physical conditions vero ere SS''
QUITE p1rrrcrsr From rmr pnTsEyr osrs
Not to spcak of atmosnha,;n md othar non-
tl1tions, about which thcrn is disnrte = ~ A.
l;nog}edred that I,nee heasts Of ui,;c' ~ bs,o
now no knowledge except from ti,e,r ross;1
remains vcse his contam,orarics and comnan1
ions in his struggles for existence and snnTar,-
acy; and that nothing OF his present noble hcr;z
sage from the past OF his race was about him or
n bis blood, OF brain, TO warn, to teach, to con-