The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-02-25

same inducements to make mental disci-
pline appear desirable and necessary to
her, are given, that she will equal man
mentally. I claim, and shall try to
demonstrate clearly before 1 finish my
series of articles, that in intellectual ca
pacity, other things being equal, she will
surpass him. Be not tantamount, but
paramount in mental powers and inau-
ence. l must reiterate my joy at seeing
the world waking up to the fact that in
tellect is not entirely monopolized by the
selfstyled wiser sex. Intelligent men
are fast coming to the rightful conclusion
that women were created for nobler and
higher purposes than simply to be cen
sured and adored; courted and married;
quarreled with, deserted and divorced.
played with and tormented; and only
really venerated and called blessed when
she has by unceasing care and drudgery
reared a large family and gone to heaven.
The mental. capacity of woman becomes
are enlarged. And her sphere of active
ness is increasing annually. Recently
the Law Department of the Chicago
University elected to admit women on
the same terms as men. There were in
1871, sixty-eight recognized woman pas
tors in the pulpits of the United States,
and doubtless there has been many ac-
cessions since Nine-tenths of all the
school teachers of the old State of Massa-
chusetts are women. Two hundred and
fifty young women are studying medicine
in London Mary E. Greene went out of
her teens into her medical studies At
ter graduating at the Medical College of
Philadelphia, she opened shop in neg
lected portion of the city, and in year
had l 600 patients. Subsequently she
was placed in charge of the Hooper Hos
pital for women, position hitherto held
only by first class doctors of the other
sex. All this proves that women have
the natural ability to fill any vocation
whatever The difficulty always has been,
and now is, but in less degree than in
ancient times, that women have been de-
barred from the means of development
and scholarship. There are only few
colleges comparatively speaking which
women can attend. These are almost
solely the mixed Western Colleges. Re-
verse the cases and what would be the
result? Give women free access to all
colleges, but limit men to half dozen CT
more small colleges in the West Then
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the predominance of intellect
Again, womans every day duties do
not call the mental powers into the full
est activity Mems do Men have the
very strongest discipline for the mental
faculties that there can be. They are al
lowed to teach, preach, practice medi
cine and law, to engage in any and every
active business pursuit that requires the
exercise of all the energies of the mind
Woman is kept from doing all this l
she is in moderate circumstances, she
shares the drudgery with servant anC
develops her mind in her efforts to man
age that servant. If she is very rich she
can not do anything, for fear she may in
were pursuing all the different vocation
that men are, and if men were confined
to all the duties generally allotted t.
= women at the same. time reversing th'
educational advantages, there would b.
no question in regard to the predominant
sex.
When we compare man and woman OF
a purely physical basis, it must be at tn
woman's disadvantage. She cannot com
pete with man physically. Physiolog.
teaches us that mans average weight
2 % lbs greater than womans that hi
t lungs are larger than hers, that his al
: breathing capacity is as to l, and tina
., his heart beats from 10 to IA times pc
! minute faster We find that the neasur
G of mans strength is his muscle. OF We
e mans her nerve That mans physiqu
4 is greater in dimensions and strengt
l than womans, all will admit But, b;
cause she can not run as fast, nor walk a
far, cannot lift as much, nor strike q
D heavy blow, does not imply that she ca
not think as fast, nor investigate as ial
Neither is it evidence that her mind ca
not digest as much, nor strike as heav
blow in argument. Your writer is cor
l. Getty enough to believe that he can ru
faster than any lady he ever saw; but t
it far from him to think that he is {
swift intellectually. The subject O
e mental comparison will come up again i
V my next article entitled, "In mind theI
/ is sex
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