The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1884-08-09
Communication.
rAN,S CLAIM TO A HEADShIP.
,o Editor of the Dillon TRIBUNE:

r, the Editor of the Dillon TRIBUNE:
S1R-My wish in illustration If this sub
ect is to call attention to the magnitude of
he theme and its claims to "tudious con-
;deration 1t is not to pronounce an eu-
nov on the merits of man, or to enter into
n argument for divine origin, SO much
TO state and defend his claims to pre-
minence over that of the woman. In do
no So have to face one of the social and
btellectual problems of the day. Modern
fasoning in the feminine world is based
ma spirit of antagonism to the other sex;
I'D instead of showing their rights to be
be beautiful and harmonious complement
mans right, it seems to be something
he tries to wrench from him at the point
the pen.
Laying aside the hypothesis Of Lord
olingbroke against Gods moral attributes,
bid the doctrine Of the immortality Of the
bul, let us consider man adefinite animal,
,art from all the other creatures which
nd has made In order to show this, we
I'VE only to look at the three gradations
he noted in the creation of man, namely,
If his dead BODY was formed out of the
,st of the earth: that it was endued with
sonl. whence it should receive vital mo-
on. and that on this soul God engraved
is own image, to which immortality is
oneved. One of the marks of excellence
esigned to distinguish man from the brute
reation is that they arose out of the earth
moment; but the peculiar dignity of
ian is that he was gradually formed. |
I'VE no doubt but by this special privilege
cd designed that man should outshine all
creatures which the earth produced.
he lower creation was made, but man was
rmed, which notes gradual process in
work with great accuracy and exact
IS.
i now come to the main point of this
atise, and to show that distinction be-
cen the two sexes is intended, and that
is also shown, in the act of creation, how
uch the man excels the woman. I would
b the readers attention to the words used
God in the formation of man-'Let us
lake man." Gen. l. 26)
1t may be here inquired, why this is not
aid in the singular number, 81 will make"
in the creation of the woman. Gen. ii.
5. The most learned suppose that dis
potion between the two scene, is in this
amer marked, and that it is thus shown
bw much the man eycels the woman. l
b satisfied with this Interpretation, for it
very plain that in the person of the man
whole human race has been created,
d our whole nature was distinguished
honored with one eulogy when it was
d"Let us make man. but these words
re not necessary to be repeated in Great
the woman, who was nothing else than
accession to man. Certainly it cannot
denied that the woman, though in the
ond degree, was created il, the image of
II; neither am l to be understood as
rming that woman, though distracted
m man, is not composed Of the same
terial and immaterial substance as man;
l do assert what seems to me insuper-
that woman must be placed second in
catalogue of Individuals. Coming after
p assigns her this place. Among the
reme feminine gender party who plead
woman's rights there is revolutionary
i, and desire to throw of mans au-
rity altogether. Equality" is the cry.
is process of reasoning is entirely
inst Gods designs, for woman was
pted mans helpmeet, not his rival. She
hit to be pleased to occupy subordi-
position in the world, for her mind is
created with the high capacities OF the
,, and sure it is that any cultivation,
'ever high, would not bring it up to the
|elcvel.
here are brilliant exceptions which have
out and have become conspicuous,
as Hypatia, and Mary Somerville,
uame de Stael, and Mrs. Lewis; but
these seem but the complement OF
higher male intellect. Hypatia. and
y Somerville understood and could
n the exact sciences; but they did not
lte theories like Copernicus and New
Madam Stael is . great historian, and
Lewis great thinker; but II grasp
ntellect or reasoning powers, could ne
be compared to Gibbon, or the other
aeon? If God has chosen man = ne
medium through which 81 momentus
rs are to be commun; Gated e the world &.