The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-06-05

NEW s.
FRIDAY lime & ISL
HERR KNOBLEsDORF.

Can YOU pronounce HE name ?
No difference lie is a German
scientist. He has Visited this conn.,
try to enlighten the people. He
Is a philosopher. We Am orleans
are ignorant of the principles of
German philosophy. We some
times discuss "women's rights" ia
this country. This German propos-
es 10 put a stop TO such nonsense
by proving that women have no
souls. They are interior 10 men
and have no reasonable hope of i'm
mortality. He tries TO sustain his
theory from the bible. Hear this
astute, nBnameable German:
The woman you will remember
was no part Of the six days of crea-
tlon--she was but an after thought.
The Lord created the world, and
rested from his labors, pronOuucing
the work rery good. There coulu
have been NO lack to the divine
mind ia this uiterance, and as vet
woman was uncreaIed. The infer
ence is plain. Woman was not nee
essary TO The divine idea of a per-
feet world. Not being q necessity
10 the world creation, she cannot be
said TO be part of IL. She has no
claim upon the world, since all the
productions OF nature were disposed
of and subjected to Adams rule be-
fore she was In existence; neither
has the world any claim upon her:
On earth there Is nothing great
Tut man in man there Is nothing
great but mind" But on woman,
10 is evident, God never bestowed
the living soul, else how should so
important part of the creation be
omitted from all mention in the sa-
cred writings the more especially
since IL expressly states that into
Adams body God breathed the
breath of life, or the soul. Having
no soul, the woman is exempt from
the command not to eat of the tree
OF knowledge, and consequently
free from the punishment conse-
quent on disobedience-the fact so
frequently understood as her pun
ishment being simply the bodily
penalty for physical transgTession.
Woman having no soul Is therefore
excluded from the race of human
Adam. Although in the creation OF
final an female created he them"
IL can nevertheless have no refer
ence to the woman, as she was still
uncreated, and, as The divine word
indicates plainly, unthought of.
The decalogue, you will notice, also
takes no cogBiZancc of the woman.
/ N 4 tt-n IN Ia hn =
as named in it. In the fourth COM
mandment the special mention of
her makes more clear the exception
al nature of the command. The
tenth commandment alIudes to her
as an object OF covetness, to be
sure; but to whom is she such an
object? Surely not 10 other wo-
men. Hence the plain inference
that the command is addressed sole
ly TO the male sex.
But our philosopher has no au-
thority for saying that woman was
ian after thought" How did he
find out that woman was not nec-
essary TO the divine idea OF per-
feet world? ?" Where did he learn
that "God never bestowed the living
soul" on woman? This German
Herr" can make strong assertions.
He expects us to accept his philoso-
ply ~ as scripture doctrine He
speaks like man of authority; but
we now predict that some OF our
American women will teach this
"lord of creation" before he gets
out OF the country. Gail Hamilton
could rasp of HIS bump OF self-es
TEEN easily. Herr Knobelsdorf had
better retire in good order, lest his
own club is used TO break his pate.