The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-10-01
Lies Within the Grasp Of
WOmankind.
WOMEN SEEKING TO DESTROY
That Which Makes Them Most
Attractive in the
Eyes of Man.
SEX Is A VERY LARGE PART

Yet il is true that people are no
longer marrying with that gladstone
and unsuspicibus alacrity that once
they did. But it is no more than a
phase. II is not portent. 1t may
be faced with that divine indiffer-
ence that is so large a lack in our
national life. 1t will pass as such
phases have passed hundred times,
but since il is here We may as well
face the reason, for it has its place
in the scheme of things.
The basic reason for a male un-
willingness to maryland the fault
is mainly a male one-is a destruc-
ton of the sense of difference be-
tween the sexes. 1t has been de-
stroyed by a few women who have
succeeded in saturating their kind
with one of those specious fallacies
that are accepted in the ratio of
their falsity. One day the women of
the world will have a wise leader
who will lead them to greater
heights of power than they have
ever known, and the path will be
backward one. She will not be of
the Pankhurst breed, but of the
breed OF women. She will tell them
that every atom of their being is
distinctly female. that sex penetrates
to the utmost heights of their ma
ture and to it's lowest depths, and
that between themselves and men
there is an eternal gulf. She will
teach them to glory in their complete
difference from men, difference
that leaves it's ineffaceable stamp
upon every nerve, upon every atom
of brain and mind, upon every emo
ton, thought. and aspiration. She
Will tell them that sex is not mere
surface distinction, that it is incu-
sive, radical, primitive; and that
Just as they eXalt their own sex, in
sisting upon its all-embracing differ
ences, so must they inevitably be-
come dominant in the affairs of the
world.
Now. it is this sense of sex differ
ence that has been the irresistible
lure to marriage. A man wants to
marry a woman, not because she is
exactly like himself, although with a
slightly different sort of body, but
because he recognizes in her a be-
ing, as it were, from another world.
totally unlike himself, and with
standards OF mental and moral value
that he can admire but probably
cannot initiate. Deep within his own
nature he knows that it is not the
feminine body that he wants, but
the feminine mind, and now he is
being assured that ithere is no such
thing as the feminine mind. and that
all the beautiful and distinctive
things of which he was in search
have actually no existence at all.
And women. bent upon suicide, have
not only told him that these things
are so, but have tried to prove it to
him by sinking the differences and
creating and then eXalting the sim
ilarities. Why should he wish to
marry a woman If womanhood is
only surface something. chance
phenomenon, that conceals a simu-
lacrum or duplicate of himself. To
assert that sex is a mere matter of
the body, is obviously to sink mar
riage to the level of a bodily passion,
since the body then becomes the
only factor in the matter The mo-
ment we recognize sex as pertaining
only to the body, at the same mo-
ment we lower marriage to the same
level, and then marriage is not only
doomed, but damned. But do not
let us worry our little minds over
much about this thing. 1t win pass
like the summer breezes.-IThe Ar
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