Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-11
A pEu1cHE SCIENTIST ON WOMAN.

had reached, with regard to woman, per-
fected view parallel to that of Carlyle
toward man-namely, that all which is
called progress and elevation has been in
an evil way As Carlyle held that the
perfected social order for man is the rule
of the strong hand, or club law, SO Schop-
enhauer held that the proper domestic
order is absolute subsection for women.
He argued that all the so-called elevation
of woman has been oply the imitation OF
the few into uselessness, at the cost of the
greater degradation of the mass; also, that
the more woman has been elevated the
more she has grown disconnected and I'M
happy. He held that this abnormal foist-
ing of woman degraded man, and thus
resulted in degrading all; that by keeping
up the dignity of man the race is elevated,
and by letting it down to an equality with
woman the race is leveled downward also,
that polygamy is necessary to mans dig.
nifty, domestic happiness, to the welfare of
the race, and especially to natural pro.
vision for all women. 1t is likely that
some of the strong minded women OF the
present day will not assent to Schopen-
hauer's doctrine. A friend to her sex has
contributed to the Cincinnati Gazette her
translation of extracts setting forth his
views. which are printed herewith
"Between men there is by nature only
indifference but between women there is
natural enmity."
"When nature divided the human race
in halves, she did not carry the incision
directly through the middle. In all polar
ity the distinction between the positive
and negative poles is not only a qualitative
one, but at the same time quantitative.
Thus have the Oriental and ancient ma
lions regarded the women, and have,
therefore, accorded them, more correctly,
a Just position than we with our antique
French gallantry and insipid woman ven
Grafton, that highest bloom of Christian
German idiocy, which has only earned this
to make them so arrogant and inconsider-
ate that one is sometimes reminded OF the
holy monkeys in Benares, who, in con-
seriousness of their holiness and inviolabil-
ity, considered everything made for them. !"
"The European marriage law, consider
ing woman as the equal of man, proceeds
from a false presumption"
"In our own monogamian part OF the
world getting married means simply to
halve ones rights, and double ones du-
ties"
"When the laws invested women with
equal rights to men, they should have also
endowed them with masculine under
standing"
"The more those rights and honors
which the laws concede to women sur
mount her natural condition, SO much the
more do they limit the number Of those
women who really participate in the grant.
ed favors, and take from all the remaining
women as much of the rights accorded by
nature as they have given to the others,
rights beyond what is natural. For in this
abnormally advantageous position, which
the monogamian regulation and thereto
subjoined marriage laws have made, men
hesitate to make SO great sacrifice and
enter upon SO unequal compact. While,
therefore, among the polygamous nations
every woman finds support, among the
monogamian the number of manageable
great number of helpless females, who In
the higher classes vegetate as useless old
maids, but in the lower are pushed to hard
and inadequate labor, or, All the
here enumerated women pushed into such
fearful position are but an unavoidable bal
ance to the European Lady, with her pre-
tension and arrogance. For the female
sex, considered as whole, polygamy Is
therefore benefit.
1T is not to be intelligently disputed
that man whose wife is chronic invalid,
or childless, or who has become altogether
too old for him, should take another.
q In this way will woman be reduced to
her just and natural position, as subor-
dinate being, and the Lady, that monster
of European civilization and of Christian
German idiocy, with her ridiculous pre-
tensions to respect and honor, will be be
thrust out of the world, and there Will
remain only women, but no more unhappy
women, with which Europe is now full.