The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-11
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Now comes one Mrs. Charlotte Per kIns Gilnan and makes assertion that the Bible story of the creation Is all wrong. and that Eve was created be- fore Adam. Like many other things we hear of this Is interesting. if true. but we are not surprised at 1t. There is a disposition among certain of the other sex to bottle up poor man and keep him exclusively in the back ground According to their way or looking at it mere man is of little use unless it be to attend on woman and obey orders
 This wornan's claim is but one more step in the way of making woman the whole thing in the scheme of life, though this latest claimant goes 5 step further than most of them do. Just how she expects to prove her con- tention we do not yet know. It mat. ters not what system of cosmology. cos- mogony or cosmography we use we must admit that it has been long time since human beings first ap- peared on earth. and if we reject the plainiy-worded Mosaic account we are thoroughly at sea. and may as well be- iieve one thing as another. There is no written evidence that is worthy of credence except the Bible and when we depart from that we have nothing to fall back on except human specula- tion and that lacks very much of be- ing a safe foundation.
 But it seems to us that Mrs. Gilman rather discredits her own sex by her theory. speaking of the matter in a sort of everyday style male writers have complimented the other sex by ad- snitting that God created Adam first. thsn saw that His arst work lacked something. so He improved on the job bv making woman. Mrs. Gilman 1 contention would lead to tho conclusion | that when Eve was finished the cre< ! ator thought He could really do bet- l ter job and did so by forming man. If she admits this, perhaps our sex shouid
 not kick. but what of her sistersT Win they be ready to admit that Adam was
 an improvement on Eve?
 The truth of the matter. in this re- spect as in many others, when we dis | card the plain letter of the Word as written we are at once plunged into
 q sea of theories. beliefs and speeuia- tions and have no anchor to depend on' If we dlscredit the Biblical story of ere
 alton in one respect we may as well
 discard the whole of 1t and adopt the | doctrine of evolution, fatIy denyins
 that there was creation. If we dis l card the order of events as set dowr in the Bible may wasnot discard ths eutire story and admit that neithsi Adam or Eve was created? Mrs. Gilman
 Is oniv one more recruit to the grea
 army of eranks. with whom is is use
 less to argne, for she is doubtless ss
 confirmed in her views that no argu
 ment will convince her to the con
 trary. We are inclined to look at
 as the New York Mail does, whicl says:
 These interesting questions will D left by most people to the philosophers ' evolutionists, biologists and theolo pians to thresh out. The thing tha is perfectly certain is that we Ind me and women entirely contemporary, ye with the woman in almost all cases in clined to admit mans prior creatio by choosing a mate older than hersel If is as if, in the great majority C t unions the woman said. Well. here a being who was in this place befor was, and who must consequent
 know more about it than do; can d
 no better than accept his guidance Acting on this suggestion, she estat fishes man as her senior partner as oi . ten as she can. If she is indeed tn ! elder, and man is but little brother ? her to be taken in hand and 'brougf . m" woman has completely lost th t tradition of her priority.