The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1897-04-23
WOMAN AND paooarss

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10 Gfceec Zoe dootduc oi ,hy nataral
equality oi Joe ieA,s sos. udulttI in
only by isN philosophers, particular.
| ly by Plate.
Education aad 1.e m,eicour.c of
women were leit O, cuu,t,sm.. Toll
and scclu.on and abundant lsuouu,c
formed tlc condition Of &c mothers
and fisicrs Of ilc c.ul,us.
With a.l her masculine yisor and
glory, Gre,ce fell, gradually atrophicd.
because onchalf OF her bad been. OF Sc,
purpose, Intellectually and practically
paralyzcd. Not long ago the wife OF d
wealthy Greek pcasant sought prolc
ton against the cruelty Of her husband.
IL bound her almost naked 10 siake
in the street. in cold weather. and urged
the passcrs'by to strike, chastisinr them
when lh"yniuscd. fhccoutt exuncrated
the husband on the ground OF the wiic's
iusuhordinaiion. 1--WE cannot anori."
u SAID, 'io teach a woman to disohov
the commands ui her husband" Aud
Rome, proud Rome, began noby but
ended IN degradation Ia her early
days her women could boast oinumerous
privilege Of which they we're after.
wards deprived. As their liberties be-.
came narrow social depravity increased.
The nobility oi matrons and the purity
OF Der young daughters were things OF
the past Female ignorance became a
virtur, aud every accomplishment In
ART OF learning was regarded rs no onlt
for women Of loose morals. Mus
dancing singing, rending, wcrcall inter.
dioied. Undcr Chrisiianized Rome and
the institution oithe Cannon Law, the
position Of women not In Rome only
but throughout ala Chrstcudam, was
still further degraded. All pretense to
equal rights was swept away. The
Church held and taught, that woman
was created TO serve nan and To sub
nit 10 his desires. Even to-day the
English law, inthe spirit OF the Cannon
Law, holds that wife is the servant Of
her husband
Official Christianity descibed TIE
most innocent Of relations Of tbs sexes
as naturally corrupt.
Nature was subordinated to deprayed
theology. Kingsley says, "The Christ.
ian Church was swampcd by hysteria
ilp"s s.>,his,lio Tho siE,~eaih century,
Iheteioru'"s'e'. --ns.Aen ht.ls he,,et
than before. As TO education. IN
gown or garment" he said, worse be-
came a woman than that she should be
WISE" That popular clergyman, the
Rev. Knox Little, in his "sermon to
Women" 1880, says, There is no
crime that man can commit which
Iustihes his wife Ia leaving him. II IL
her duty to subject herself to him al
ways, aud no crime that he can COM
nit justites her lack of obedience. II
he DO bad and wicked man, she may
gently remonaterate with him, but re-
fuse him never.
Il lie not to Christianity, but to science
not to our preacher, but to our thinkers,
the race owes lie progression, and that
the bonds Of women arr being loosened.
No great English woman has ever APP
peared hut some dignitary Of the Church
has attempted IN smother her or her
schemes OF reform. Mary somer-
willie was publicly denounced by Dean
Cockburn Of York, and Us late rs April
oath, 1884, Dean Burgon wrote In d
Liberal paper. "rhe Daily News"
against the proposed admission Of
women 10 examinations for honors NJ
Oxford University. lie described Il as
"a moral revolution disastrous 20 q
woman's best interests. lie went on
TO give the purpose Of creation. how she
was designed TO be "the complement o.
mans being" "hIs chiciest earthly
joy," but all this will be brought to
an end nj ONE Il you teach her to try
TO be lwhat she can never bco0mel
mans equal, much less mans surperior
Henceiorth she will have TO be kept
down" and so ON according 10 the old
formula. DO these good gentlemen
really believe that their Christian offices
require them to appose, and tooth nail,
every attempt towardsiwoman's advance
ment? We suppose they do. An
American song goes'-
"There was a man what had clock,
His name was Mathew Mears,
Tie wound il regular every night
For four aud twenty years,
When this precious time. piece proved
An eight-day clock TO be,
A madden man than Mathew Mears
You wouldn't wish To see."
So when the end comes and womhn's
cause prevails, will they not feel like
Mr.. Mares, that they have been mis-
taken in their time-piece and have en-
gagged in supererogatory efforts to wind
up the public clock? Let us turn from
such pulling specimens OF manhood who
would keep women in perpetual
seryltude, to oneoi our great thinkers
ard giants 10 progress, the late Pro-