The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-08-27
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY MEMO.
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| In one OF my recent arLlcleS Jne
one on THE New Woman" / asked
for more light, il my interpretations
were at fault concerning her pur
poses and her powers. A number
= of letters have come to me, but
strange to say, they do not at any
point dispute the accuracy of tn,
conclusions reached in that article
In some cases however the writers
raise n protest against the nec wo
man as factor in our modern civil
Iization. One letter written by OIL
Editor OF my acquaintance will serve
as a summary of this class. After
stating that he could not possibly
think of printing the article, he takes
two positions
l. Woman was made for men, else
why the difference in formation
.. The Bible teaches wives be
submissive to your husbands" /
naturally shrink from controversy
that tends toward the theological,
because. for a layman, the battle
field is unfamiliar yet when an edi-
tor ventures on q Characterization
of his mothers sex as lower than his
own, l needs must be foolhardy
enough to follow, if only to shout in
his ear n few things that seem to be
truths. Let me say then to him and
others who agree with him regard.
ling formation, that he is about
thirty years behind the times. From
the time the books, Darwin's "Ori.
gin of Species, and Descent OF
Man were issued, up till the pres,
ent day of Drummond's ascent oi
Man" whole flood of light has been
spread abroad in our minds regard
ing the analogies of nature. We see
clearly that the all-wise life-givel
and sustainer OF over 800, 900 va
rieties of birds, animals. insects &c,
made them male and female" av.
cepJ In me very lowest TOMS oi
life, like the lf.dividing amoeba
and others. 1t is not necessary to
dwell at length Oh the advantages
of this division of functions. One
point alone in relation to quadru.
peds will be sufficient to hint at its
utility. By such an arrangement
: the welfare and opportunity foi
survival of any one species is prac
tically doubled. / shall be clearly
understood when l say that the sud.
den death of the nature male does
; not necessarily annihilate his kind
nor a similar catastrophe to one fe.
male, prevent the perpetuation OF
the species. When we follow these
analogies up to the limits Of human
, life, the teachings of lower forms OF
life have led us to expect exactly
what we find very clear differen.
tiation of duties and a complete re-
lance upon one another for the con-
tinued existence of the race. TO as
sumo then that the woman is Great
ed for man and is of lower rank than
, he, rs to assume that lioness is
created for lion; an assumption
which the analogies of nature point
out as erroneous. Each is equally
important to the other without the
one, the other cannot exist. Even
as st. Paul, that favorite author
among dictatorial lords, says: New
ertheless, neither is the man with.
!, out the woman, nor the woman,
, without the man."
Physiologically there is a point
upon which man can claim superi-
ority to woman a point of superi
ority which all other male creatures
share with him. He is aggressive il
: his duties, she receptive, stands il
Gods stead as donor of the life
= which has come down to him through
an uninterrupted chain of beings
} over unmeasured years she as the
treasurer and care-taker of the prec
: ious trust of perpetuation. But his
. right to pride on that score is slight
= since he has proved in numberless
: instances unappreciative of the lofty
, honor placed upon him and un
worthy to be the guardian of the
stream of life.
1t seems pitiful that we sons OF
woman should ever permit thought
of inferiority en- her part to cross
our minds. Space will not permit
an explanation of her almost uni
versal debasement in the past. II
is however a humiliating fact in the
history of our race that less than q
hundred years, since the efforts OF
Mary Wollstonecroft for the better
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