The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-02
IMAGINATION and Matrimony.


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(Julian Hawthorne in Philadelphia
North American)
7 was laboring with a psychological
theory that women with creative
imaginations ought not to marry,
when the announcement that certain
eminent woman novelist, whose en-
Sasement had been reported and then
Cby rumoT) broken OF, would be mar
ried after all, gave me just the help /
wanted, for her exception proved my
rule.
The organization of a woman is
much more compact than that of a
man. She is ali one thing, goes all one
way ana SPEAKS with q single voice
ana looks "A TN Il single eye. ri1e fibers
OF her emotional are so interviewer
with those OF her intellectual nature
that you cannot disentangle them as
you can a man S. a man Is intellectual
one moment and emotional the next:
his brain is on d separate plane from
mat o. his heart, nc can take interest
. in things of entirety opposite elements
and bearing. There are men who are
sublime in matters of the mind and
az the same time animal or even
[ bestial in those of the body; but you
VIII never find a woman who could di-
wac up INTO q JehglA OF a E1NuE. OF.
having begun as the former, she may
degrade herself into the latter but
never can she alternate between the
two or she may be a devoted ana
successful wife and mother. or, on the
other hand, she may be a great artist
or novelist or musician, but great in
both respects she cannot be, and would
better not make the attempt. She is
not made that way. At IS against her
nature.
Oh viii find. indeed, that a woman
is never purely intellectual or mental
as man may be. She is all affection
nothing but that Sometimes her
affections may seem 70 be dried up.
and nothing but intellectual functions
remain, but this is an illusion What
really has happened is that her affec-
tons. having Tor one or another reason
been turned aside from their normal
human object, have directed them
selves toward some interest of the in
telleCtual sort. and love that instead Of
d husband or a child. She may. for ex-
ample, become "A good mathematician.
or ply stefan, or historian or natural
ist Though she viii never reach the
/, highest grade in any of these StudieS).
but she does not approach her subject
or deal with II in the same way that
man does She does not contemplate it
in the dry light, with COldness and dis
paSsionateuess: she cannot be impartial
though she may protest and believe
that she is so; she is in love with it.
in fact, and her heart is leading her
mind from first TO last. But a man is
pleased with knowledge for the mere
light that is in il, and gets along with
il without any heat or warmth what
ever. His mind. If he be left to him
self. leads his heart. He feels no need
of the woman and OF the emotional life
which she implies, unless she presents
herself to him. Eve could not have got
on without Adam in Paradise; and
though we are told that God said it
was not good for man to be alone, yet
he had been alone for some time before
Eve came to him, and it is not reported
that he was aware OF any deficiency
When the woman presents herself to
the man she arOuses sometimes his
sensual feelings. sometimes his higher
instincts of unseldsh love. or a cOmbi-
nation of both. but she VIII never sue
coed in weaving him from his intel
lectual pursuits. if he had any. or any
tendency TO have any in the beginning.
on the contrary. he viii be all the bet
ter a LAWYER or scientist or author for
having a happy domestic life going on
side by side with the other. Or
woman NAV ruin g mans domestic
happiness and make Il sort of Ishmaei
Of him: but unless he destroys his
faculties by drink or drugging (Which
he may do in any case) he VIII still be
as able intellectually as ever and pos
sibly more So But whoever heard of
a ruined woman who was not ruined
all over, heart and brain2 There are
no two strings to her bow. If part Of
her sinks in the sea Of fate the rest OF
her is drowned too. You may cut her
off from any intellectual pursuit and
If you leave her freedom in other di-
rections she viii not repine- Cut her
heart out, however, and. IL she have
not education which may enable her
20 turn her affection upon some fig