The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-24

tive desires 10 become q nereIlC, an
ieonoclast, q revolutionary, and
where woman has begun to modify
her instictive love for conservation,
for the quiet nest, for sentiment,
and where side by side they will
go out into wider and better paths
of human endeavor. 1t appears that
some such influence Is in reality
coming to the modern world.
Certain 1t is, that today women in
large numbers are going out into
new fields and successfully competing
with men. In every deartment of
society women are coming into larger
and freer life in politics, in religion,
in the family, in education. Every
where they are pressing against the
barriers and the barriers are giving
way. Man is no longer the center
Of things and woman no longer re-
wolves about him as sort of stehite.
Nor is there any cause for alarm
in these changing conditions. 1t
simply means that we must create
more kinds of work and provide
larger and higher fields for the &C.
.tivities of both men and women.
Every girl, no matter what may be
her station in life, should have the
highest and finest education that can
possibly be given her, and this should
include some specific. definite way
of earning her own living. This
education of women and the en-
largement of her sphere of activity
need not endanger the home. The
integrity of the home is the most
vital consideration in the life of the
world, but there are thousands of
women who have no homes in the
sense of having husbands, and
children about their feet.
From the old theology we have
heard much of depraved, fallen man.
The new theology is speaking to us
Of risen man. Human nature Is In
its essence divine. Train and develop
woman Intellectually, give her indie
,pendence SO that she can stand on
her own feet and live out her own
life. Do this, and you will find that
there is not woman in a thousand
who will not forgo career, honor,
applause, fame, for a home with a
man whom she can love and whom
she can reverence and respect She
will remain true to the strongest
element in her nature; for the
Creator has fashioned her the noblest
of all beings.
Woman has been evolved to pre-
serve, to defend, to perpetuate the
species. In the course of this evolu-
tion she has developed alturistic
traits not possessed by the average,
&c
logical results of her environment
her care for children and for those
who need the succor of the soft hand
of mercy and sympathy. There must
now also be evolved within her a
great fundamental reaction against |
the harshness, the pugnacity, the
brutality, the greed, the selfishness,
that has been put into man thru
evolution, and which must he miti-
gated thru farther evolution 1t
seems to me that is exactly what is
taking place nova great DiolOyic
mo, ement to increase the power and
influence of woman. This uplifting
power and influence must go into the
home, the nursery, the school, the
church. the college, and into the rb-
Scure places Of life, until it hec )mes
the web of the life of childhood as
Well as of maturity. Then, and Lot |
till then, shall men and women,
working in harmony, rear temple
whose affairs shall be aflame with the
sacred fires of love and from whose
portals children shall go out endowed
with a power which shall beautify
and glOrify humanity.
Mans destiny is in his own hands. |
These things must be if the race is |
to be preserved from degeneracy.