The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06
AT THE UNIVERSITY.
WOMAN AS A FORMATIVE
POWER IN HISTORY
Lecture Delivered By Prof. Whitley
Last Evening in the Public
Course-Prof. Whiting to Speak
on January 18th.

Another OF the series of public lectures
given by the professors of the university
was delivered last evening by Prof.
Whitley. of the department of history.
An appreciative audience was present TO
hear the lecturers treatment of the sub
/ ject Woman rs a Formative Power in
the Worlds History" brief synopsis
only of the discourse is here given:
! our special aim this evening is to
show that woman has been one of the
most potent factors IN the progress of the
world: In the histories written thus far
In the histories with which we are
familiar-toO little of the subject matter
| is assigned to woman Men are con-
sldered the great history makers as
only men can be warriors. naVigators.
statesmen. authors of the first rank But
Things are changing. There has been an
evolution of woman. She has steadily
evolved until at last she has grown
strong enough to stand by the side OF
man. We cannot affirm that woman 5
place IS the same as mans. We axe
sufficiently Anticipated TO think that
woman's position is different in endow-
mentS and in the manifest purpose of her
ministry Physically, woman is weaker
than man, intellectually nearer to man s
strength, emotionally deeper and strong
er than man. Woman has more grace
ana sottneSs of beauty than man. She
touches man more effectually than man.
Woman IS the best medium for the
transmission of those qualities that go
" CudIdCiSE II Is IflIH 10 OD-
serve that all great men frankly own
their larger Indebtedness to their mothers.
The first and greatest work in the min
lStry of woman is that of being man s
educator. Here. she is unrivalled, both in
fitness and in opportunity. The most sue
ceSSful of human maniDulatorS are the
Jesuit trainers: Give me, said one of
these, the first seven years of a child :
life and l will answer for the subsequent
retention of Catholic dogmas.' What
these teachers do by imitation the mother
does by all the force of deepest instinct
and intention. The mother is supreme
as to opportunity; the child is the
mothers deepest life in the objective en-
bodiment of another individuality. She
gives the life to the world and takes it
back to her Utmost soul for training and
formation
The lecturer then explained that this
great formative work is wrought by
woman in two ways: 1nStinctively and
intelligently. Speaking of the fact that
woman is being recognized as formative
force he said: 1t is woman as the
fostering power in the child life OF the
world that science has reached at last
and that is now helping the mother as
she was never helped before rms
field of wOmanS labOrS received most OF
the professors time and attention. Child
study has reached a recognized place in
the circle of the sciences and there is
little doubt but that it is destined to lay
the foundation of an education of the
race so thoroughly scientific and rational
as to make possible results that Will
crown the Goth century with universal
GOOD. Historically considered there is
little we know of wOman'S power in the
old civilizations-not because that power
was ever absent from the world, but
rather because the historians have not
been in sympathy with womans work,
and all the space has been given TO the
louder claims of men. The inferiority of
women has been in most countries and in
most ages taken for granted and thought
lessIy If not brutally acted upon So in
all the records of the past there is little
or no data given of woman's work. There
are a few exceptions in Homer and in the
Bible and some traces in accounts OF
tribal times when a woman was recog-
nized as the power of the hour. and in all
instances left US the success was most
brilliant and a work done which ranks
with the best class of effort ever accom-
plished by man.
The next lecture of the course is
scheduled for January u. and is TO be
given by Prof. Whiting on THE Mechan-
ism of the Human Body
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