The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-06-22
EQUAL SUFFRAGE MATTERS
Proceedings of And Paper Read
At Meeting of Local Branch
Of Franchise Society

the city of Alexandria q woman cels.
brated for her beauty and intellect. She
q philosopher Of the Neoplatonic
school and became such a proficient in
the Platonic philosophy that she pre-
sided in the public schools there. where
she taught the ideals of art and culture
that blossomed from the old Greek Gull
ture. Her influence over the studious
and educated Glasses in Alexandria be-
came so great that it excited the hatred
and jealousy of the narrow minded. In
consequence of which she was attacked
by an unreasoning, senseless, infuriated
mob, dragged from her chariot and torn
limb from limb and her mutilated re.
mains were committed to the flames.
Such is the story of Hypathia, Hy-
pathia who lived, fought and died for
her high ideals and her firm convictions
that she vas right. Calmly she lived
up to her high ideals, calmly she went
forth to and faced what she knew to be
certain death. Such was the fate Of q
woman who lived in an q when men
could not brook the thought of women
being intellectually equal, let alone su-
perior. to them.
Had she lived to-day how different
would have been her fate.
1t is interesting to note the difference
In opinion concerning women, of the
men Of antiquity and modernism.
Cicero says-Trust thy boat to the
waves but not thy heart to women. The
sea is less peridious than IN
Codrus-Iudeed there are fewer stars
in the armament than kinds of deceit
in the heart of q woman.
Confucius-There is nothing more
corrupting and more corruptible in the
world than q woman.
Aristophanes-There is not a crime
under the sun of which a woman is no
capable. l can attempt to escape from
fire or the claws of q tiger. From the
pernicious influence of woman there is
no escape.
Hippocrates-Wickedness is Unborn in
women.
Seneca-Woman is jealous. malicious,
harassing, capricious and her vanity is
beyond endurance.
Apuleius-Woman is the invention of
the devil.
Solomon-The best way to deal with
women is to beat them; a good correo.
ton is better for them than a string of
pearls.
While from the great, grand modern
men we have the following:
Irving-Woman is q perfect divinity.
Emerson-What is civilization? I
answer, the power of good
Dickens-Oast in so slight and ex-
quisi'e a mould. 30 mild. SO gentle. 80
pure and beautiful. the earth seems not
the element of woman, nor its rough
creatures her fit companions.
Guyard-Woman is the sweetest pres.
emit that God has given to man.
o. W. Holmes-Women are much
nearer to God than men.
Schiller-Honor to women To them
it is given to garden the earth with the
roses of heaven.
Ruskin-The path of woman is strewn
with flowers. but they rise behind her
steps, not before them. "Her feet have
touched the meadows and left the daisies
rosy"
Michelet-Woman is the masterpiece
Of God.
And in answer to the men of antiquity
Victor Hugo says:
Women would have bsen in your times
what she is now if, instead of the words
blame, criticism, satire and suspicion,
you had used education, confidence and
liberty.
1t is not to be wondered at, when the
great minds of antiquity placed women
on such a plane. that Hypatia, with her
pure. high ideals and intellect should
have been the object of envy and malice
and the victim of revengeful wrath.
We women of to-day could shout
"Hallelujahl' when we think of the
great blessing of living in an age that
has given to the world such men as
Irving. Emerson, Dickens, Guyard,
Holmes. Schiller. Ruskin, Michelet.
Victor Hugo and dozens of other
learned men. who frankly admit the
mental equality of woman and who
are to-day struggling to give to woman
the last substantial evidence of their
confidence and admiration, namely, the
ballot.
Scott meant woman as we'll as man
as man when he said:
Breathes there the mar with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native landi