The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-14

bought and sold by intuition, would
soon go to wreck. In domestic life
women do not secure more trusty
friends than men do; they are not more
successful than men in selecting serv-
ants; they do not adjust themselves
more happily to the tempers and fail
ings of companions, nor more quickly
perceive the consequences of a mis-
spoken word, nor read character more
accurately, nor exhibit more insight in
to the future than the masculine sex
does.
In all these things there are great diff
ferences in individuals, but there is no
evidence on record attainable to show
that the difference separates along the
line of the sex, and it is VIGOROUSLY the
woman and not the man who is deceived
by the soft manners and oily pretensions
of the quack; it is the woman always
who is overcome by the hypocritical
unctions of the Rev. Honeymans.
And now we reach the most decided
test of all. The most important event
in the life of woman is the selection OF
a husband. In nothing else would the
power of intuitional perception have a
better opportunity to evince itself, or be
of greater service to the possessor.
This may be fairly called critical
test; and the moment we apply it we
see that the theory falls to the ground
utterly That men, who confessedly
are without intuitions, often make sad
mistakes in selecting their life-compan-
ions we all know; but do they err as
frequently as women doP Men are often
fascinated by bad women, deluded
| by selfish, wrong-hearted women; but
of all hopelessly blind creatures there is
none to equal young woman enam
ored of an unworthy man.
Sometimes it is smooth and plausi-
BILE rake; sometimes q snowy, innately-
vulgar fellow, with bad habit and afro
cious tastes; sometimes man whose
fiber is coarse, and who is sure to de-
velop into brutal and tyrannical mas
ter; sometimes it is man whose cold
and selfish heart is for the moment con-
cealed under the affectation of sympathy
and affection. In whatever guise it
comes, the woman, in majority of
instances, is utterly deluded.
She fails to see the mask, or to detect
the real character that it hides. She
refuses to listen to reason; she will not
believe the wise cautions of her friends
she rejects evidence; she will not listen
to admonitions or warnings; she insists
upon trusting to her intuitions, so called,
and as a consequence, her happiness is
wrecked for life. 1t is monstrous for
people who ought to know better to talk
of womanly intuitions in the face of
facts like these. They do incalculable
injury.
Instead of showing that reason is the
only safe dependence, that all persons
must be wary of hasty impressions, that
one can not trust any guide but sound
Judgment, young women are brought up
with the notion that they are endowed
with special talisman; that they pos
sess an occult, mysterious, shorthand
method of getting at facts; that they
are not obliged to sift evidence and
weigh circumstances, but have only to
trust implicitly to certain impulses or
instincts; and as result they too fire.
quently make appalling and irretrieva-
bic mistakes.
There was never more unfounded,
brazen, audacious humbug than this
theory of womanly intuitions, and, as it
is infinitely mischievous, those who ad-
wise it ought to be brought sharply to
the bar of a revised public opinion
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