The morning call., 1893-06-11
IS WOMAN THE COMING MAN? :?

apparently to justify the question, IN all
seriousness. VIII woman be the coming
man-the race type? VIII the day come
when women will conduct the active busl-
ness of life-make laws. execute JUSTICE
arrange national aid international policies.
and in all things assume the lead, while
man ocrunies A subordinate position?
Recent science puts forward theory
that is singularly suggestive OF an uhex-
pected answer tn this question: W. OF
three years ago Grant Alien, I'D an sttlcle
that aroused wide discussion at the tiLhe:
declared woman 10 be 'sub-specleS' tolu
off for purposes of reproduction. NO ohe
can deny that the position woman las neIt-
tofore held in the world has Justlheu tne
making of this statement as TACT MI.
Aliens sole mistake lay in characterlzlpg
this as a biological fact. Man in very
early days told woman off "f0r purposes
of reproduction, to rear his children and
keep his home and minister to him, but
nature never did.
No other female creature in the world is
thus treated. For woman is not unde-
veioped man." sang the poet, IN years gone
hy-and now comes science and declares,
in unmistakabe terms, that. woman is de-
veloped man; that the female is the prod
uct of more favorable, the male of less
favorable. prenatal conditions; that
daughters are born to the millionaire.
while the beggar is blessed with sons, not
cause the easy circumstances OF the
wealthy home are more favorable to the
development of the more highly junction.
allied race type than are those OF the
poor mans hoVel. In every class OF anil
NAL the female is the higher type-lt is she
who has. it is he who wants. He Is en-
dowed with grace and strength that
he NAV be attractive to her. There
are abundant instances. as Geddes
and Thomson show, in that very remark
rha olt,tfa
Sex" in the lower orders. both of plant,
and animal lie, where males do not ap-
pear at all, save when conditions grow
poor, yet the organisms go on multiplying
and the races thrive. Among the two
species of creatures that in their lives and
conditions are most frequently likened to
humankipd-the ant aud the beetle
female Is the race; the male is, pre-emi-
nentIy, "a sub-specles. told off for pur-
poses of reproduction" The working
bees, the working antS-the soldiers among
those busy insects whose ways the wise
man bids us study and be wise-are females,
With them as with the bees, the droneS
having fulfilled their mission in life, are
killed. the community having no further
use for them.
If, as we all admit. by the coming man
we mean the high race type
II, as modern science seems to teach, the
race type is feminine, what then is the
logical inevitable answer to our question?
Is woman the coming man?
This, at all events. is In the main true.
The male of the race is degenerating. 1t
is not the higher educatiOn-it is not the
new freedom-it is not their love for their
newly acquired independence that is caus-
ing the young woman of to-day to eschew
marriage ana to choose for herself career
in single blessedness. Human nature is
the same as it was twenty years ago-but
where are the young men tor the young
women to marry? There are very few of
them to give second thought to whom it is
worth w0man's while. Vapid, rapid, de-
generate. mentally, physically. moraIly-if
the coming man Is to spring from them
he will never come.
ADELINE E. KNAPP.