Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-23
CALI AND RESPONSE
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| the same work as we'll as we d., she
has a right to be paid the same wages
that we get. Thanks be to our civili-
cation, woman is pushing To the front,
and like the women of the a nglo-Sax-
on race, she is literally wrestling her
rights, one by one, from us; and she,
ere long, will put on the full panoply
of equality. We have no right to make
her helpless. Man has always arrogat-
ed to himself the privilege of doing all
the business of the world, but woman
has compelled US to recognize that She
has as much right to a living as we
have. Woman was not taken from
mans head that she should rule over
him, nor from his feet to be trampled
upon by him, but from his side that
she might be his equal and his help
meet. And she is as much intended
in the government of the country-in
the schools--in the training of her boys
and pirls-in the enhancement of learn
ing-in the progress of society as we
are; and she is fast coming to that po-
sition God intended her to occupy
she is mans equal not his slave. So
ciety has much to accomplish yet.
There is much crime and immortality
and ignorance in the world, and we
need woman's help to advance the car
of progress. The press is the prime
agency in this work. The inventor OF
printing is the greatest benefactor of
the human race. His statue ought to
be in every city, town and hamlet.
The next greatest power to the PRINT
ing press is the public school. Here
all find the means of education. These
schools are open to all, but NOR espec-
:ally to those who cannot utfrrd al
academic course. Oh! the power, the
irresistible might of the army of boys
and girls that are now training in our
public schools for the active duties of
life. And will they not go forth to
conquer the earth? and will they not
conquer it? The great conflict has al
WAYS been between man and nature,
and it is there to-day. How long did
that mighty giant, steam, lie dormant;
but when harnessed to the iron car.
what a marvellous transformation came
over the world. And the subtle force
of that other giant, electricity, slept III
quiet among men for ages; but man
finally chained it, and now uses 1t to
transmit his thoughts across land and
sea with the rapidity of the lightning's
flash. And how man CROPPED in ignor-
alTce and darkness and superstition for
long, weary centuries before he called
into science that other, the mightiest Of
all giants-the printing press. Are
we done? Has nature been conquered:
Have all her resources been maie sub
servient To mans use? Are there 10
more dormant giants in our midst,
which if harnessed will outstrip the
railroad and telegraph? Have we re-
ally opened the doors of natures store
house? Nay; the profoundest thinkers
of our tunes hold that we have merei>
reached the Threshold aud, coward
like, are afraid to enter. We have
chained. it is true, what Is called
electricity; but do we know what it is
or whence it comes or whittier it goes
or its subtitle force? For fifty Years
man discussed and settled the question
of the indestructahiIity of matter. In
the last half century he has promu!-
gated and esta bished the doctrine of
the indestructibility Of forces. Is time
and space to be entirely obliterated?
Who can tell? Yesterday | read III the
Reputticaa of a lady, unable from
weakness to attend church. lying iii
her chamber four blocks away and by
means of the telephone and michropone
heard the sermon preached anu the
music OF the choir III her favorite
church. a printer in New York can
print his NJ ssageS on material III IRON
ton.
Our progress has been amazing, but
are there not other achievements within
our grasp? Do we knew much of the
forces of mature? Whence the subtle
power that gives us the crops and
flowers and fruits in their season:
Where does the wind come from and
whittier does it go AID what are the
laws that control it? Nay, has it any
laws? The clouds, the storms, the
rains, the cyclOn come and go, and
man trembles and fears and Often dies,
but what do we know of the laws that
govern them? Nothing. We are as
ignorant as to them almost as our
nude, urcuttUred ancestors. Thus we
find that, while have accompl shed
much, a wide unexplored field lies be-
fore US. Many forces Of nature lie hid
den from our gaze, and hence unAtIl-
lied. The schools must unlock natures
secrets and show us how to harness
her forces for our comfort and safety
and advancement. How shall this be
the people and marshalling all our re-
sources. But by no means can this be
SO rapidly done as by developing the
thinking faculties Of the people. Teach
the children to think" should be the
motto of every educator. There are
two processes of reaSOning-one, Undue
tive; the other deductive. In one we'
reason to facts; in the other, from facts
In tae one we reason from within; i'm
the other, from without. Up to Ba-
cons time the deductire system pre-
vailed among philosophers but the
transcendent genius of this great but
profigate mar, revolutionized thought
by revolutionzing the mode of thought.
He first gave power and form and sub
stance to the inductive method of,
reason. To illustrate these two meth
obs of reasoning: LIE Venier employed
the dedu tive system when he sat in
his studio and calculated the position
of Neptune in the heavens before the
existence of this planet was positively
known, and so unerring was his calcu-
latiOn that he turned his telescope to |
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