Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1890-06-18


Tha, iconcclas, Mona Card. who MP
~, all notions % proprisiy by startling
the wcrli with the question. is Mar
riagc a Failure l. out In The North
American Review with another IDEA M
lcss startling. She declArcs that all cui
sentiments. cus,ams. laws and mites ars
merely the outgrowth u time and cir
cumstancc. and that there Is no such per
maneni quality - MATURE On which
humanity -reks % ha-e it, hkr-. dis
like. whims AMI prcjadic-s.
Mr. Card attacks the mo-iern notion
that the foundation - society !. the
family. and that the father Il the head
% the family. The family. tho gci os
mo,lern Socie;y. h notapernanent insti'
tuition At al. she qnOis- many su,hori'
tis- o. prove. Our pursuit institutions
are q development q the pstrisrchai
system. In which gwen man Wa the
heal and assumed father % the trils'
hsnc. iis ds-votic ruler. But before ths
patTiar hAi Az thsrr was the msiriarchAl
Az. In which wuInAn was the chief fac
,or in the human family, She was the
h.a.l. and relationship was traced only
through her. Children seldom knew
who thar faih-rs were; man. childrrn
~rr, NJ more a. him than tho~e IL an.
other man.
Women were % enormous Importance
IN the dsy. q thin population. and men
tcll into the prs-iic- 20 buying wives.
Frum this practicc date the beginning
O, thu patrArChal system. and the down
FAN q v'uman. in he iudgmeni Il Mona
Cairl lfaman bought wife. .hs VA
his prut-rty. naturally. and her children
WIN. al.n his Pr'yioa. a. this the chil'
dr-n l--lons,,l exclusively to the mother,
who hal rutir,. night over them. II at
E.ars that previous b the l-.nnning Of
N. rairiarchAl sys,sin women ''hC~-'si
tn msu quite a. much a.. later, mcn
did w0in-n. anil n-n naturally took sub
lime rvyenge wh-n. in the cuur-e II time,
IL l.came their turn The name q Mr..
Cairl's Ial--r a. The Emancipation II
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