The Washington times., 1920-05-07
Arnold Bennett Forgets the
Mothers of Great Men
He Argues A II the Great Made Themselves and Were
t.W s7 Entitled to All the Credit

Il ,.Et. Entitled TO All the Credlt
One Of the inherent instincts Of humankind n 70 ask
questions and debate, ,as TO tho answers.
The interrogation point Is the most sstrsotivs Of the
punctustion marks. rAt
u Whsnsvsr you see question you insnOtively frame
your answer and usually think THAI what you thnk
should be the conclusion Of everybody else.
Il follows that whsn you turn over the pages OF the
Nay issue Of Harpers Basar you win rst look with anc
patton At the opening ohaps@s Of loLy oosmo AsmL !.
pretty girls comment for word or SO ON four pages OF
French roo but whom you come 70 page 90 you wl stop
stu for sross that page question Ar' Men superior
The rest Of the magazine can wait until you what
AEaod BENNETT has say the matter and you md out
wkssAsr you agrss with him.
~ A. you glance through the article this paragraph
dakohss yew sys: tA
vs.: "The literature of the world can show at least
fifty male poets greater than any poet Indeed,
= the women poets who have reached even second rank
ARE exceedingly few--perhaps not more than half
dozen y$ sE $500 t,s ,Aa
- With the possible exception of Emily Bronte no
woman novelist has yet produced novel TO equal the
Il great novels Of Zone may Do enthusiastically for
Jane Austen without putting Pride and Psejudice, in
the same category with Anna Karenna' 4'The
.,ssWoodlanders. y
''No woman at all has achieved either painting or
sculpture that is better than secondrate music that
is better than thirdrate. Nor has any woman come
~ anywhere near the top in criticism
H. "Can anybody name celebrated woman philoso-
pher, or woman who has made 6rstrate scientific
= discovery, who has arrived at Rrst-rae
generalization of any sorti"
Youssay to yourself particularly if you are woman,
81 wonder he heard Of Madame Curis and he does
not list the discovery Of radum - great scientific achieve
msnt?"
would be losing contest Women have not achieved in
and science and literature and philosophy what man has
done
For centuries woman was tho slave Of man She did all
~-k -; Sl>I~ ko~<A sbnSa ayA huwx
Then for other centuries she the playthng Of
He provided her with beautiful Clothes with jewels with
every form Of adornment and her only occupation was
Nehsr Of these condition. was eoudciv. to mental
development
hundred years ago women began to assume their
right place in tho world
They began to THINK and man began to encourage
them in thinking.
An occasional poet like Mrs. Browning appeared. An
occasional novelist Once in while an astronomer
chemist And often than all the rest because woman
has higher moral sense than man. there appeared
formers.
One of the results of the reform work of women is that
when State shall have ratified the suffrage amend
sut 100000 viii have chance to express their
minds about the government of this country.
Any reform that sets free that many inteligenoes Is
important and the who engineered entitled to
some credit ..
But there is one answer you make to Mr. Bennett
that will confound him and all who agree with him that
woman is tho inferior Of man.
Every woman il potential mother, and there never
great who did not first have to thank his mother
for his birth and second in the majority of thank
that he ever amounted to anything
Read the autobiogr,phies Of the about whom
Mr. Bennett boasts. Almost every of them says II
Whatever am to my mother, to her care when
child her training when young TO her advice when
growing up, to her influence all through my hfe"
That is where is infinitely superior TO She
suffers that generation may be born and she devotes
her life the hope that her children may grow be good
and great.
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