Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-06-10

that there Is some truth in the state
ment. But cannot this fact be readily
explained And If we can explain it
we are on the highway toward find
ing out q remedy for the evil. Why
has woman this gossiping tendency?
Because her intellect has not been
trained as mans has, and because the
sphere to which we have shut woman
up, and not SO much the sphere as the
manner of filling 1t prescribed by the
world. These restrictions put upon
her have hindered her intellectual de-
veIopment. A bitter spring cannot
send forth sweet water. A tree bears
fruit after its own kind. If there is
nothing in q vessel nothing can be got
out of it. If a woman has not intel
Iectual training, il she knows nothing
of the worlds history and literature,
if for these reasons she has never been
introduced into the domain of the
worlds thought, how can these sub
jects be interesting to her? Shut up
within the narrow limits Of her unaid-
ed originality she cannot be expected
to see beyond her immediate sur
roundings. She does the best she car.
She obeys the natural social instinct
and visits her neighbors. They talk
about matters covered by their INTEL
lectual radius and those matters are
the small affairs of the neighborhood.
Who is to blame2 Not woman, but
the attitude of the world toward the
education of woman and the so-called
sphere Of woman. This attitude is the
legacy, in a large measure, of the
church of the middle ages, and in
those countries in which the medieval
church hold strongest to-day woman
is thought the least of. 1t is not SO in
America, which is,as Herbert Spencer
says, "The paradise of woman"
The church circle is one in which
women may exert q great influence
for good. If one Ia seeking to work
for humanity there al be no better
place for effort than in the church of
to-day. Here so much can be done for
the alienation of suffering, if the
church be active so much can be done
for the children in starting them
rightly in life 80 much car be done for
helping mankind at home and abroad,
and in SO large a part of the church
work so little objection is raised
against the activity of women, that
the church offers to-day a great op-
portunity for women in the matter of
developing ways and means for help
ing mankind. And 1t is my hope that
every one of the young women on this
stage tonight may be known as ao-
tive church workers.
Let us try to correct one or two
mistaken views concerning education.
I have heard educators say to the col
lege students, prospective college stu
dent, "educate yourself and you will
have the world at your feet" Moth
ing could be more calculated to
deceive than such a claim as that.
The world Is at the feet of no man.
An education will give one better
weapons Of warfare, but the war
fare must be carried on. Competition
will still be severe. There are always
competitors of ADLER minds more
trained. Be not deceived, |
young ladies. You have not yet sue
ceeded In life. You have got only
your equipment and you have not yet
learned how to use that.
Again some say, 81 want to be edu-
Gated that I may get along without
This is a wrong conception.
good training In a school is only a
atting for work. We educate ourselves
not that W. may avoid work, but that
may work more efficiently.
The highest aim OF educa ton, we
may say, IN conclusion, is that we de-
velop the individual for his benefit to
The highest possible pitch of perfec-
ion and then turn the education of
,he individual to the best account by
Erecting it in the interest of humanity
It large.
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