Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-28
THE EGOTISTIC SEX.
LET Us HOPE ALL MEN DO NOT
DESERVE THIS LECTURE.
ONE OF THE SISTERS BRINGS VERY Sc
WE'RE COUNTS AGAINST THE SELF
SUFFICIENT MASCULINE MAN.

In considering man in his relation to
woman the woman of advanced thought
Is accustomed to speak of his selnshness,
his tyranny, his injustice, his brutality.
All these are but different manifestations
of one equalty-egotism.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table de-
fines egotsm as a salt for the preservation
of society. A human being without ego
tism would inevitably degenerate in the So
cial scale. We recognize the necessity for
egotism, but we deplore and shun the
egotist, for the egotist is one whose sense
of his own greatness las grown to such
enormous proportions that he sees nothing
else in the universe. And this Is the case
with man in his dealings with woman.
His egotiSm has been to her napkin in
which We're wrapped her God given talents
and grave deep and wide in which they
were buried-a burial that for centuries
has known no resurrection morn. This
egotism, impalpable as a shadow and i'm.
pascal bic as a Chinese wall, erected itself
before her footsteps and prisoned her with
in the narrow limits of four walls called
home 1t settled down upon her life, de-
vouring every green and pleasant thing,
till the record of her existence might be
summed UP in these pathetic words, The
years that the locusts have eaten" Like
the tabled Minotaur, this egotism has
placed itself on the heights of life, calling,
not yearly, but daily, hourly, momently,
for its tribute of womanhood And led by
the high priests of ignorance and supersti-
ton an innumerable throng of sad eyed
victims have walked dumbly through the
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,tioao VI ii4ift". "o'n'i III Europe asheo
-,apo.ooi no Woman ieioefea ,iie slea''
SCI ice W iahee' ne answered her from
s"v ueP'H' u LIS i"lnoiniess esotlsih as
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ity; NO achho"ieu2ilen' OF "oinahls IN
'eiiee.' no recushitioii Vi "oihahiy genius
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hoou' me ereatest general III Europe
"ahteu soiolers 10 hiahe loou ior pow
ueF' anu III ms eyes s'upiu' proilHc
peasant woman was more uselul thah the
thee'iec' uai ieiiiih,ie oip,oina' "A"iii he
Ieareu' hate" anu eAlieo ae las' from
rfa al,
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words Is the lndwelllng spirit OF 999 out
Oh l'ooo men. everywhere men are meas
urihg' weighing luoglns' concerning OF
approving women by the mean narrow
pe.H' ,nisefap!e stailuaros Oh thelr lndl-
'1uual ilhes' ulsllhes anu heeus' ne yer
man Emperor "ililaih expresses MS par
'icuiar ese''sih oS the uictun thae "om-
an sphere Is BOUNDED by the three Ks
-hlrche' kueche' klhderstupe (chureh,
hi.cneh ana nursery.
Mheh Laura clay was lecturlng In Ken
lucky hehtuehy colonel who' by the
way, was hot present at her lecture, re-
marheo loitliy that ne MAD no use foi
such women. de was evidently OF the
OPINION that the Almighty ruler OF the
universe hao mace great mistake IN not
consulting MN "heh MISS clay was mace.
II was singular lact that, when the AL
mighty sees tha1 the world STANDS IN need
OF certain KIND OF wonanhood, he does
not pause To consider the wishes ana tastes
Oh any hehtocky colohel "hen he sees,
lor instance. that the women OF a great
commonwealth are ciaSsed with idiots,