The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-12-07

tilat lew OF them, as yet are willing to as
same the full responsibility of the struggle
for life. This OF course, is not their fault
The instincts and the various organizations
of centuries are not to be escaped in one
hour of freedom. Man has been knocked
about and has had to fight for his own so
long that he expects nothing that he does
not win on its merits; or rather he does not
reckon on any leniency of judgment on his
work because he is man. The work must
speak for itself. In time woman will also
learn, if she will be Independent up to the
limits of her full physical and mental
power, that she can ask no allowance for
work of any sort because it is the produc-
ton OF a woman. But it is perfectly natu-
ral i'll the present state of development that
she should expect protection, while she de-
mands almost absolute freedom and equal
ity in all opportunities. And | believe that
when the social state is settled in the new
order let us call it the order of education
and of justice, the relation of the sexes, so
far as dependence and mutual help 90,
will be not very different from what it is
now. Women, having ventured as far as
they can in assuming the work of the world
hitherto done by men, will find that nature,
after ALL is governed by laws that cannot
be set aside, and that woman has duties,
impossible for men to perform, which can
not be neglected And men will learn
that there is much in the activities of life
which women can perform as well and per
haps better than they, and this they will
cheerfully accord, while treating them still
as women. In that way concord Of view
and of purpose will come AGAIN But it
may be safely predicted that it will not
come until some further experiments have
been tried, until the complete education
of women puts them in possession of the
full exercise Of their natural powers and
capacities, and teaches them their limita
| tiorS and the peculiar duties that belong
to the human family by reason OF the differ
eEce OF sex. No one any longer disputes
the right Of woman to the fullest develop
ment Of he! powers by the education to be
got from hooks and from life Just now it
seems to he assumed that this education
should he exactly the same As that given to
men. This experiment is hound to he
tried TO Tie end. While tits in progress
there will he rAtravagancrI OF conduct
TncIr will ne women apinG mcn in man
ners and in dress, and losing The qualities
! that makes women most lovely and agree
and there will he men who will declare
that the education Of women i Il totil ms-
take, because it is destructive O; those
feminine qualities and charms which make
the world interesting and cndulablr. We
have faith, however, that natures Laws are
uniform, and that trees will continue to
bear fruit of their kind. We have no fear
that the educated woman will bccomc only
a man She herself will be as fully con-
scous where her strength lies. aud in the
! end will take The kind of education best
! htteu to develop Tier feminine poNclS, and
/ best fitted to the duties that nature has i'm
posed upon her We have not got very
far with general education Yet, but no one
doubts that that salvation of society de-
ponds upon it, OF that in a well-lalanced
world the education of the one sen is as de
sirahle as that of the other. 70 educate
both alike might produce monotony, and
sacrifice some OF the best qualities in each
A man. for instance, would he Of small ac-
count if he owed his whole training to an
old fashioned female seminary, and it is
quite believahle that the higher education
of women must include graccs and accom-
plishments not suited TO men, and not in
the curriculum BOW being tried for them
From the 'Editor's Study by CHARLES
DUDLEY WARNER, in Harpcr's Magazine
for December.