New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-11

for the modern emancipated peasahtry ENeIS
country girl wants to DO fashlonaNne anu c'ciS
carpenters wants to be merchant
" / think. myself. the Latin ara Greek anu AN
antique business is little overdone. al,
"Guyon. let me tell you a story My lalhei loI ru
il me- and know it is true. Some years ago theIo
was o respectable Protestant mechanic III l1osioh
who had one daughter. She showed great pIonisct
and some ladies' took an interest III her lheI SUI
her to a good school and gave her what IS calieu y
fine education for woman. mat 49, sne nc URN
refined tastes; knew a few iacts' enough anI"I o
history of the world to make contrasts ana alaH
conclusions: learned French ana music anu Ionu
ness for that cleanliness and elegance oi peIsoi an
Surroundings which is an expensive luxury Oh Wy
favored few For even to he clean III TINS Worlu
requires money Well they did tins. not WIN me
view of making her teacher, which 10 but q
limited field, but with great IDEAS IookIng w wv
her higher life and influence for good III her own
class She was pretty. We'll! At twenty she
came back to her home-a small snite OF rooms III q
dirty tenement. They gave her piano ana ie ,o
her each saving that was true charity: sun sue
seemed unhappy. that 1t was reiet 10 such as
kept track of her when she married railway en-
ployea steady industrious fellow s1o,o admir-
ing her he found her n burthen lie never unCer-
stood her then he despised her, finally he TOOK 70
drink and beating her. She met man whom she
likcd-a gentleman. Her husband was not: year
after you met her on the street corners; Shc went
to the devilif there is one Her husband uie1 9l
drink her father of shame. What do You think !
think it a case OF ill-judged charity. ana that
il proves nothing" said GuyOn. "Splte OIL all you
say, | think our civilization pure 1ha no o,,i
yirtuous the world has known. Take the type OIL
girl described in Mrs. stoves novels :,
That is a tyne that is passing away 1t Is rene
of the singular ideal life which did prevail here
owing to universal plenty and intelligence-up 10 a
few years ago Go along our seaport towns nov
aud YOU will find universal discomfort. vugarity'
a cheap imitation Of bad city fashions and vice;
New England will shortly be the most lnmoral
country we know. Aud the sinister tact about II -
that this unhapplness and immortality VIII De iounu
not in the highst classes or the lowest Dut III the
great middle class which the social ltle ana
future of a nation depends. We are accustomed 70
shrink with horror from French novels and French
morals To-Day the bourgeoisie of France Is purer
and happier than our own"
Scenes of college life fill several lively chapters in
the book, for il is at Harvard that Guyon meets
Randolph and most OF the other friends who are to
accompany him through the story. The author here
shows an easy familiarity with the walk and con-
versation of undergraduates just IN earlier pages
he displays knowledge of the ways OF boys. We
are not sure but his picture of college career,
with its drunkenness, idleness frvoiy and general
loOseness and vulgarty, is the saddest part OF his
satire There is ccarseness in the dialogue of these
pepteel vonng rowdics which is doubtless true to
nafure but is nevertheless blemiSn in the book.
In this direction as well as in the travesties upon
Goddess religion the satr:st sometimes goes little
too far.
The movement described in The Revolt OF
Man is an insurTectOn of the masculine half of the
English people to recoSe r their proper place IN gov
eminent and society after they have long been op-
pressed by Advanced Woman. The nation has been
turned upside down. The throne and the House OF
Commons have been aboIished the sovereign
power is held by the House OF Peeresses; women
fiji all the public Offices, the professions, the uni
vers ties the great schools; it is the women who
thr.ng the clubs, who lounge in the streets and the
,oII- oIi nd WIN M 1--we The
arts the literature the sciences, the religion Of old
times have been forgotten the old books have been
destroyed or hidden away. The churches have
been given over to the worship of the Perfect
Woman, and the pupts are filled by female
prcachcrs-prests and deans and bishops. We
have an abstract of a sermon by the Dean OF West
minister, whose cloquence and feryor were
eouallcd by her scholarship 1t see us to MS that
we have heard something little like II before:
After touching on the invisible growth of the re-
ligion she painted time OF anarchy wnen men
had gwen up their old beliefs and were Ike chll-
dren-only children with weapons IN their hands
CRYING ont with fear in the darkness. She told how
women. at last assuming their true place, substi-
tuted little by little the true, the only ialth-the
worship of the Perfect Woman, the Fcminlne c
Divinity OF Thought, Purpose and Production she
pointed ont how, by natural religion, man was EVIL
IDENTIFY marked out for the second or lower creature
although by the abuse Of his superior strength. lie
had wrcsted the authority and used II for hls own
purposes. lie was formed to execute, he was
strong he was the Agent Woman, on the other
lahd. was the mOtheT-that is to say, the Creative
Thourht; that is. the Sovereign Ruler. In the
ani,,,al creation again il ID the male who works,
while the female sits and directs. And even IN such
small points the gender of things lnanlmate,
everything of grace usefulness or beauty was. and
always had been, feminine. Then she argued from
the natural quickncss and intelligence of women.
and from the corresponding dulnesS OF men, from
the lower instincts of men compared with the
spiritual nature of women and she showed how,
.ln, lgf
eminent Of the nation, laws were for the iiIst TN
framed on sound and economic principles, and Tor
the benefit of man himself.
The Fundamental doctrine of the new creed is the
subord nation of man. "W c are required to obey
says the Earl of Chester; that is the first thing
taught in the Church catcchism; all women are set
in authority over us. Again, what says the text
1t is mans chlefest honor 20 be chosen; his
h CHEST duty to give whenever bidder, his love,
his devotion and his loyalty" Herein lay one of
the most potent causes of the revolt. 1t was the
women who asked, aHd the men were obliged, not
only by rigorous custom, but in many cases by
severe laws to give and the consequence was that
the old women got the young men. Railroads and
factories were abolished The art of building
steam engines was lost the men sat all day at
hand-labor in their own cottages:
They came. after three DAYS posting, 10 Man
chester They found II a beautiful city. situated
on "A clear sparkling stream IN the midst OF de-
ghtful rural and regularly built after the
modern in straight streets at right angles to
each other: the air was peculiarly bright and brac-
ing. " [ wal ted very much" said the Professor,
:" TO show you this place Yon see how pretty aud
quiet place it is; yet in the Old times 1t had "A
pOpulation of half "A million. 1t was pcrpetually
black with smoRe there were hundreds of vast
factories where the men worked from in the
morning until q at night Their houses were huts
dirty crowded nests of fever their sole amuse-
ments we're to smoke tobacco and to drink beer and
spirits they died AT thirty, worn ont they were of
sicklv and stuntcd appearance; they were habItual
wife-bcaters; they neglected their children; they
had no education, no religion, no hopes wishes
for anything Dut pientllil pipes anu beer. See 1T
tories swept away; the machinery destroyed the
men working separately each in his own house.
making cotton for home consumption. Let us walk
through tho streets"