, 1874-06-07

the process BY which many female character
lst1cs have been produced by condition OF de-
| pendence, ana adds the following:
OF il not asserted that the speciaties OF
nud herr escribed a. haviag heeu developed in
women ay their necessities Of vfeuhe In air dealings
been developed a. aids t. deensa IN their deal.
| ings With one another But the difference is, th,t
pend upon these nds OILS in some measure. gomeu
| in their dealings with men, depended upon them
anost wao{;wtn " The deesttc o5els - re AZ
Of heredxy BY which many facts throughout Nature
show qs they have come to be more naried in womAn
In note to the eboro passage, Mr. Spencer
! says that, "wcre the place fit, he might detail
! evidence that has been COLLECTED" in proof Of
| tue "p,edomlndnt Transmission Of traits to de-
acendants Of the same sex" The evidence is.
ho says, in some respects marvellous" and
concerns bodily as we'll Us mental characteristics,
| extending to inheritance of diseases, mal1orma-
tions, etc. He cites Agassiz in evidence, and,
dosing the note. ssya that
Among European and Eastern nations, the men and
women differ, both bodily and mentally not qnite in
the ways to the sa1ne degrees but in so,ne-
what daersnt ways nnd degrees-a fact which would
| reity by sex.
| The law Of
| "THE SURVIVAL Or TIE F7TrEsr"
also comes III Play to still further Increase inher-
1ted differences, us appears from the following:
Clearly, other thinga equal among women living at
the mercy Of men, those who succeeded most in pleas
ing would Ike the ost Likely survive sud leave
tersy And {recoguizlug the predominant descent Of
qualities on the same side) this acting successive
generations tended to establish feminine trait.
special solicitude to bs approved and an aptitude OF
manner to this end.
Again, in the. body Of tho chapter, find the
| following:
Those unlkenexscs Of mind between men and woEn-
which, under tho conditions to he expected.
IN n Sta1s: b. no eans oes % dted s sy
trarg o3tosss Determined. ~ ws ses they soma OF
them ars, by adaptation OF primitive womcns natures
to the natures of primitive men, it IL inferable thai:
civilization rcadusts mems natures 10 higher :2es@l
there goes on corresponding readju.t
meat between tie natures Of and wtnen, tendlng
in eundry respects to diminish their differences.
pe:iay may ws anticipate that thoss mental recu1ia-
tes deseopsd In women = aid, to defense aganst men
that, though al kinda OF power will continue to bs at
tractve to them attrscyoness Of physical strength,
with 1t, will decline, whils ths attributes wtte1
dues to soc!al influence will bscome more attractive.
Of women, carried or within such limit. shall not
unduly tax the physique {and here by higher culture,
do not mean naers e-eursng snd IN exten-
ute) viii In other waya reduce the contrast. sIowly
lending to the result everywhere throughout tbs
organic world, Of = sekpressrvins power invessely
ta less early arrest OF Individual evolution, and
and women which the sarly arrest produces.
| The "ear1y arrest OF individual evolution in
females ha8 been previously spoken OF as Ma
turs's preparation for the bearing OF children.
| From which it appears that Mr.. Spencer believes
that, even in this par-axcellencs female function
OF child-boaring, woman has been
WARPED FnoM 4 NATURAL CONDITION
! BIZ her subsection to the power and desires ct
| man. And may add that Prof. Huxley has OK
pressed the sauae opinion.
II mistake not. the Nation was one OF those
papers which. when ths subjeetion OF Women ~
made its appearance, made Light OF ths assertion
in tint book that "wl,at is called the nature OF
women il an oninently artificial thing" Some
wiseacre in Applstons. Journal wes, to ny Ger
| tain recollection, very funny and sarcaatlo over
| the following passage:
| II men had ever been found In society without
| women, OF women without msu, OF Il there hsd been
society of men and women II which the women vera
not under the control Of ths men, something might
have been positively known about ths mental aud
moral differences which may b. 1nhersnt IN ZACH
comes to the support Of LII. Mill, In the follow
| ing passage from the same chapter:
Sundry manifestations Of nature in and women
greatly perverted BY existing social conventions
predatory reg1ms, With its xdapsad standard Of
rriety It il not considered manly to show, but which,
| copt{ardwise, are considered admirable in women.
Hnnce repreEeed Manifestations in the one case and
exaggerated manifestations tn tls other,-leadtn2 to
| mistaken estimates.
Tho sexual sentiment comes into plny to modify the
behavior Of men and women to one another Respect
ing certain parts Of their general characters the only
evidence which be trusted II that furnished by tha
conduct of 10 men, and OF ous17 ta tcoen. when
paced in relations which exclude tho paraonal afsc-
Gous.
| Spencer and Mill which have cited, the ques-
| tion arises in my mind, whether Mr. Mill pro-
| mulgated an " extraordinary failacy," erwhother
| the Nation has exhibited
EXTRAORDINARY IGNORANCE.
Or. in other words, will tho combined autlori-
ty OF tie tro sufica to stand against tho com
p1acaut dictum of the Nation For myrcn,
incline to think that they will That journal, as
wo KNOW. has no lore for =, those gen
and, like its English model, IL an adept,
when it wishes, in the art OF depreciation BY
Bncer, by assumption, BY hhnk-divers1on and in
sinuntion. Ii Mr.. b1llrs influence is not deelin-
ing, it certainly is not because the Nation has
nit informed is readers often enough OF the
fact I think + have read in Its pages as many
seemingly casual assertions to that effect as al
lusions to his ''curious visw." Mr. Mills almost
absolute authority ma! have declined someVhht,
of late years; but is it bccauEe Of any detected
and confessed error In his teachings; or ia it be-
cause he ventured to prose- their practical apph-
cation, ten, tvonty, or fifty years before the SLOW
going world WAS ready for it7 Il 10, he can al
ford to wait.
No doubt his espousa1 OF that special phase Of
the womau-moyemeut called woman-sudrage
has just now. somewhat injured his authority:
I am, myself, ono Of thoso who believe that
won uan-sunrage before woman bus become po-
cuniar1ly Independent will DO but
A"M11ED" EXPERIMENT.
Mr. Mill evidently thought it would b. potent
educator OF the female mind; and. what IN
England Vas OF much greater Importance tnan
here: be wanted her vote to aid in removing the
multiplied disabilities, injuetices, and worse,
which English men have thus far failed to re-
move from tho English codo. Here, in many
statos, they have been ,.1en 1emoved, ~ nd nd
ing removed, and with no fear Of further
ones beng imposed think that 1t romnns rssnn;.
support-the one to be no more surrendeeed y
marriage than the other. no matter what may be
tho character or capabilities Of tho husband
Until. that somewhat distant day, have little
faith in suffrage which, so far as i should M BE-
mt mete duplication OF the husbands vote,
would undoubtedly be, more than anything else:
but instrument in clerical hands for the n1a 9staG
;tT and church-ensine1y in general. I might
add that the developments Of the past TmIer
have not seemed to ms to favor any undue haste
in the adoption Of woman suffrage.
This, however, is neither here nor there. II.
it be truo that Mr. Mills influence is declining,
In nfCr