Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-06
WOMAN, HIS THEME.
Professor Whlijly's Lecture of the
University Last Night.


at the University. The lecturer was
Professor Joseph Whitley, Of the de-
partment OF history, who esid In part:
The whole OF history may be regard
ed as a grand resultant and certainly
beyond the power Of human measure
ment. We may, however, get at some
approximate view-we may for con.
venience OF treatment take up tine
study in sections. Taking the idea Of
ono resultant and proceeding scien.
tifically we may search out the vary.
ing cauees that have contributed TO
that resultant. We may also consider
the instrument used by the history
makers, eg. The sword-the pen, etc.
But our special aim this evening 10
TO show that woman has been one OF
the most potent factors In the progress
of the world. We arc all very famil-
lar with the general form OF the SUBJ
sct matter OF historians-and taking
oven the best OF what has been writ.
ten-tbe share assigned woman Is
comparatively small.
Men are the great history makers,
as only men can be warrioTs, navi-
gators, statesmen, authors of the first
rank, hnanciers, diHCovereTs, etc.--in
other words men only are capable OF
standing to the font OF the worlds
struggle. That lie, they have done 1t
so crowuedly that there has been little
opportunity and still less deeire for
woman's work.
But things now are changing.
There has been an evolution OF woman,
far away and from behind tho great
scenes of our human drama sbe has
steadily evolved, until at last she haa
grown strong enough to stand by the
side OF man. We are not intending
here to affirm that " Oman's place isithe
same as MANI, or that 1t hhould bu in
the fullest sense Identical. We are
sufficiently aniiquated to think that
woma n'4 position in the worlds life ia
very difierent-diiierent In nature and
measure of endowment and equally
apart az we judge, In the manifest
purpose of her ministry.
Physically woman is weaker than
ENTHUSIASTICALLY nearer to mans
strength - emotionRlly deeper and
stronger than man. Woman has more
grace and Stiffness of beauty than man.
She touches man more effectively than
man.
Woman lie the beat medium for the
transmission OF the very beat and
finest qualities Of the materials that go
to character building: 1t Is trite to OBJ
serve that all great men frankly own
their larger Indebtedness to their
mothers. But the first and greatest
work in the ministry OF woman Is that
OF being mans educator. Here she
Is unrivaled both in fitness aud in
opportunity. The most successful OF
human manipulAtors are the Jesuit
trainers. One of these said, give me
the first seven years OF a child's lite
and l will answer for the subaequen.
retention OF Catholic dogma, but these
are but imitators OF mothers at the
best. What they do by art the moth er
does by all the force Of deepest instinct
and intuition.
First-The mother 10 supreme as to
opportunity--the child ia the very
mother'e deepest life in the objective
embodiment OF another individuality.
She gives the lie to the world and
takes 1t back to her Utmost soul for
training and formation
This great work is wrought In two
forms-instinctously and intelligently.
All mothers work instinctively and
with some degree Of Intelligence Some
mothers control their instincts by the
mind light they have, and do their
work effectively, and it is from these
we have our great redeeming man. 1t
may be said this Ia most emphatically
woman's sphere. 1t Is here she ten j 5
aud directs the very roots II humanity.
What woman does here in her time.
IA fnE .l.t.
eternitieH and bearing fruits Tor ever
and ever. Ii Is woman as the fostering
power in the child-life OF the world
that science has reached at last,
and 10 now helping the mother
has she never mas been helped before.
1t is this field OF womsn's labofs we
more especially wish to spend the
larger share OF our attention ana time.
Child study has reached recog-
nized placs in the circle OF the
sole noes, and we doubt not but that IL
10 destined to lay the foundations OF
an education OF the race go thoroughly
scientific ana rational that the beat
possible results may BIS reached-re.
suits OF education that will crowd The
twentieth century with universal good.
That which woman has done imper.
iectly and blindly VIII be done with
wisdom and intelligence. Then the
truth OF the wise man will be demon
e,rsted without hsgrant exceptions.
"Train up child In the was 1t should
20 and when he gets old he will not
depart from it," Whatever delrac.
lions there may be made from Foebips
kindergarten 1t will remain as the
best effort Of the nineteenth century,
as the beginning revolution OF
universal Significance AMI benefit.
Historically considered, there is
little we know OF woman's power In
the old clvillzations--not because that
power was ever absent from the world
but rather because the historians
have not been In sympathy with
woman's WORK, and all the time has
been given to the louder claims o
meh. The inferiority OF woman has
been in most countries In most ages Of
the world taken for granted and
thoughtlelsly, when not brutally acted
upoR. So in all the records Of tho past
there 10 little or no data given OF
woman's work. There are few OK.
captions In Homer aud In the Bible,
and come traces in tribal times when
a woman was recognized az the power
OF the hour, and in all the instances
left us the success was most brilliant,
and a work done which ranks with
the best class Of effort ever accom-.
pliahed by man.