The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-19
rhe - owoman Problem. >


Recognizing heredity as the distinctive at
tribute OF the female sex, it becomes clear
that C must bo from the steady advance Of
woman rather than from the uncertain 1Uc-
tusti0ns of man that the sure and solid prog
ress oi the future is 10 come The attempt
t0 move the whole race forward by elevating
the sex that represents the principle Of insta-
bilty has long enough been tried The
many cases Of superior men the SOILS of SUI
perior mothers coupled with the many more
cases of degenerate SONS of superior sres
have taught us over ard over again that the
way % civilizo the race is 90 civ.Iize woman.
And now, thanks % modern Diologic science,
we See why this rs so.
Woman IS the unchanging trunk of the
great gcueal0gic tree. while man, witch all bis
yaunted superiority, is but branch. %
grated scion, as 10 were whose acquired
qualities die with tho Individual. whiie those
OF woman are handed on o. futurify. Wo-
man is the race and the race can be raised
uD oniyas She Is raised up There is no fixed
rule by which nature has Intended that one
sex should excel the other. amy moro than
there is any fixed point beyond which either
cannot further develop. Nature has 10 in
tent.ous. and evolution has no limits True
science teaches that che education OF woman
is the only sure road 90 the evolution 81
man. Professor Lester j.. Ward il The
F0rum
Zen Jou.on on human Nature.
What q Wrctchedness is this. to
thrust all our riches outward and be
beggars Within TO contemplate moth
ing but the little. vile and sordid
things of the world; not the great
noble and precious3 We serve our
ayarice and not content with the good
Of the earth that is offered us. we
search for the evil that is hidden.
God offered us those things, and
placed them at hand and near us that
he knew We're profitable for Us; but
the hurtful he laid deep and hid. Yet
do we coyet only the things whereby
We may perish, and bring them forth,
when God and nature had buried
them We cOvet superiluOus things,
when It were more honor for u II we
'h cOntcmn necessary
r. Lesson I'm Grammar.
One of the stumbling blocks 10 TIE
-.5e writers is the old grammatical
crux OF the Two first This is aJ
wrong according TO the school teach.
ers. The Herald received and an
swered a question last week touching
the grammatical accuracy Of Bishop
Berkeley in the much quoted verse:
Westward the course Of empire takes It's way.
The four first acts already past.
Should it not read first four2 asks
the querist. Not al all. But" saya
the school teacher. there cannot be
four fiIsts, there can only be one. "
Oh, yes, there can; there can be as
many hrsts as people want The pre-
tense Of the grammarians is, that
when you say first four you speak
more correctly, for you have in mind
q second and third four, but this IS
precisely where they are mistaken.
In the passage in question there is
only reference 20 five acts altogether,
and if you say the first four there can
not be a second four in the thought.
And Yet the hard headed grammarians
labored over this problem for years,
until the newspapers showed them it
made no difference IN the thought
whatever in what order you placed
the words. Chicago Herald.