The herald., 1896-10-31
: WOMRh'S SPHERE :
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Can the sphere of mortal be bounded
The thought of man, untrammeled,
reaches out into illimitable space; all
creation, all worlds are his to penetrate
their yet unsolved mysteries. Can the
measure of mans thought world be
compassed or womans realm of intel
lectuality be narrowed or confined?
Thoughtwaves travel through bound
less space. cross and recross each other.
until every atom in the vast universe
is quickened by the electrical touch and
set in motion.
Man, with all organic and inor-
ganic matter, is an atom in the immens-
ity: an atom, and yet he stands dis
tinet factor in the one sphere that gave
him being. All organic life is essen
tial to every revolution of the spheres,
their perfect equipoise and gravitation
is maintained by animal as by natural
forces to hold each in their orbital rota-
tion as they move unerringly through
untold millions of years, in their on
ward course
If man, then woman, ASIAN atom in the
universe of world forms also primal
factor. BY the electrical currents of ma
ture, thought waves set in motion reach
out and quicken her into life-from 9TH
er worlds they come and the sparks
emitted scintillate through heart and
vi ldlIl, ylIlS ileI lOI WdIu, Will II,
far out on the vast sea of progress.
Creation never ceases its silent, invis-
ible, inexplicable work. In the trem-
blings of earth, the roar of the cataract,
the molten lava, the tidal sweep of wat
ers, the upheaval of the great deep that
forces up strange lands as others
submerge-may fill the earth with noise
or fear; yet it is natures way to recre-
ate. Silent has been it's inscrutable
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in the untold centuries of the past,
through the evolution of time and ma
ture, woman has been one force in the
worlds perpetuation. She is no more a
reproductive. .recreative force than man.
The pollen that by the passing breeze
is carried long distances to find it's own
specific germ cell is as essential in its
recreative power as the far-away calyx
that waits to enfold it.
The flowers of earth that lift their
heads toward the rays of the sun-god
for life, beauty, form and color, shrivel,
fade and die when hidden from his life
giving beams. In the ages of the centur-
les woman has been environed within
cloistered walls, the harem, and the
home, denied the right in the affairs Of
human life, save that of reproduction.
Like the plants, her intellect. .godlike as
man, unused to intellectual action in all
the avenues of life, dwarfs, droops and
dies. There is no part in nature that
her nature does not touch. conscious or
unconscious; each vibration reaches
chord that is attuned to some part of ma
ture's symphonies.
There is nothing in all the domain of
social and civic life that does not affect
her. Whether human or divine, woman
with man, draws her sustenance for
body, soul and brain through the same
producing channels The negative
is as essential in natures forces as the
positive. The feminine element in all
life, in the lower or higher order, is as
important to natures growth and activ-
ity as the masculine. The world would
be dark and dreary were either by some
strange dispensation, one element, eth
er masculine or feminine, be suddenly
removed from the earth-world, if no
longer mans power, and love actuated
the life of woman, or if woman no more
shed her Influence, tenderness and love
over the heart of man, one wide, desc
late waste would be revealed.
To make the world perfect l1abita-
tion man and woman must walk hand
in hand. Wherever their lives and du-
ties are separated-whenever the best
influence of one upon the other Is sun
dered ruin, destructionTand despair will
follow. ts !"
After the human species had been pro-
duced is there no higher life to be at
tanned? Must the intellectual and spir-
itual growth of women be lost in sex
specialization? Must all the aspirations
of her soul for kindred fellowship, that
reaches out to grasp the knowledge of
earth and life, to hold the power of JUS
tice with steady hand and true heart,
be subservient to animal instinct and
passion? If man and woman remained
wholly animal in all their functions
there would be no apparent need of
questioning. Rather do we see eviden-
ces in human beings to rise to higher