The Dillon tribune., 1884-08-16

What in the name of common sense mas
Lord Bolinbroke's assumptions about the
moral attributes of God, got to do with
mans supremacy over woman! "na'
possible connection can the doctrine OF the
immortality Of the soul" have with 'n's
subject?
What idea is meant to be conveyed oy
the Injunction, "Let US CONSIDER man
definite animal?" Man is no more definite
than any other animal. 1t is quite prob
able however, that 81. S." has read in some
Of .Beadle's Dime Novels" 1--WE may mis-
quote source,) of the probability of man
being detuiti1'e animal, but the significant
adjective, not to say the proper one, has
evidently escaped him; or else, one OF
those "horrid" typos, has wicAedly trans
formed the manuscript. have anindist'nct
recollection of reading description OF
quas; intellectual parsonage, possessed with
burning desire to pose before the pubic
as an author, but as the illustration can
have no possible application to 81. S." |
shall not endeavor to recall it, because it
would be "real mean"
"The brute world rose out of the earth
in moment" They were nade But the
peculiar dignity of man is, that he was
"gradually formed" "The lower creation
was made, but man was formed" etc. Well!
l must say, that for rank assertion, and
silly repetition of unqualified, unmitigated
bosh, have not read the equal for many
day; and that too, right in the face of his
quotations from the first chapter of Gen.
esis, where the word "formed" does not
appear once, in the King James edition; and
no distinction could be made if it did, as
the words can be used unfortunately.
But to his "main point"
We are referred to Genesis 1, Goth, and
asked to consider why the Creator of the
universe should say "Let US make man."
(Let the reader remember, please, that man
was formed, not m,ade). Why on earth
Moses should represent the Lord as using
such language, is more than can tell. l
give it up. If the gentle reader will refer
to the first chapter of Genesis, and read
from the 18TH to the 29th verses, l will
wager goodly sum that he can draw no
other conclusion than the patent one, that
they were both created at the same time;
and the sense of the word ''man," in the
Goth verse, means both male and female;
and between that and Genesis H. 18th and
22nd, g. S." must find himself in the pre-
dicament of one trying to explain "rhe
Mistakes of Noses" It is needless for me
to say that have tickled my husband nigh
unto death, in my frantic endeavors to dis
cover the location of the missing rib, but
need add that my efforts have been futile?
have never made the acquaintance OF
Mrs. Lewis in literature; but George Eliot,
or Mrs. Lewis, has long been the fitting
subject of my admiration, on account of
the ennobling and elevating nature of her
literary contributions to the world. It was
matter of no small liberality, however,
for my noble dispenser of logic to mention
the names of even the few great women
that have welded an influence in the world !;
but how much more gratifying it would
have been, had he done so without the CON-
promising comparison to Gibbon and Ba-
con. We feel the humiliation Of our po-
sition keenly enough, without this "un-
kindest cut of all'.-an odious comparison +;
and when we "consider the source of
woman, we are astounded to receive even
the compromised admission of our astute
81. 81 that "a mere rib, should ever have
been the compeer of a complete and erect
spinal column. At the same time his con-
cession, fastens upon him however unwil-
lingly received the conclusion that, "what
woman has done, woman can do again; y
and give woman all the unhampered priv
ileges, an equal length of time, that man
has enjoyed since his time first began, and
time will prove whether or not, she is capa-
bic of evolving theory that would graf
ify, if it did revolutionize "the little world
of man."
| 81. S." quotes the names of Xenophon,
Herodotus, Demosthenes, Plato and Ho-
mer, with sang froid that is truly re-
freshing; but we cannot repress the con-
viction that, instead of a capability to trans