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THE FEMALE SOUL.
We look to American Ainbassadors for oratory of grace and distination. Me. George Harvey is determined to give us not that alone but profound speculation on the ultimate mysteries of existence. The firat natural impuls, indeed, whan we find "Hate an orator propounding the inquiry! women souls is to suppose that he does not wish to be taken seriously. But as we read on we hare to conclude, like Benedick in the play, this can be no trick. This con- ference was sadly borne." Mr. Harvey in troubled by the teaching of our preceptors in religion." He finds that while they call it absurd, "if not positively sacrilegious," to suggesta doubt that women have souls, yet they lay it down that wordan is not the equal of man in the possession of inherent rights, but is, and was designed by God to be, his subordinate. and subject." Now, there is certainly a familiar sonnd about, this. We seem to hear an cecho of Milton's Eve explaining to her spouse her notion of the rights of ||
Woman:
My author and disposer, what than biddest Unargued I obey; so God ordnins.
God in thy law. thou mine, to know no móra Is woman's happiest knowledge and her
pasire.
That this is an ancient and well-supported doctrine is not to be denied. Man bas often been eloquent in expounding the wüber- dinate position of waned and the beauty of feminine meekness. But we must nsk leave to doubt whether in these days many of "our preceptors in religion"" are prepared to take the Miltonic tone. It is surely not often heard in our modern churches, which, indeed, cannot well ignore the debt they owe to women. Mr. Harvey, however, is much troubled by the argumants of those who use the statement in Genesis that Woman was made from the rib of wan tö prove that it was the deliberate, intention of the Creator, to make woman a sub- ordinate and subject of man, and who insist that when she set up a claim of equality she violated a Divine ordinance." A certain difficulty in connecting the con clasion with the premises need not blind us to the fact that the conclusion has been reached by many great men in the past. Milton was not eccentric in his eager denial of the equality of the sexes, and his magnificent distinction
He for God only, the for God in Him' has seemed to many men and some wo men profoundly wise. Yet Mr. Harvey's distress about it seems in 1922 rather an apachronism.
The Ambassador is obliged to make, an excursion into Biblical enticism, whither we have no leisure to follow him. But be bas satisfied himself that the whole theory of the inequality of the sexes reste upon a "clerical assumption. ** The law of God he pronounces as at one with the law of Nature in holding men and women equal. At this stage in the argument the reader. may well feel the need for some definition af terms. It is sufficiently obrious that in the matter of physical strength and adar- ance the law of Nature has not provided for the equality of the sexes. We have to confess that the Ambasador, like many other philosophers before him, leaves us wondering what he means by Nature and its laws. But what he is really interested in is morals. The theory that woman is inferior to man has, in his view, vitiated all our principles. He can find no recognition in the Decalogue that women possess souls or inherent rights, and be concludes, there fore, that," the Ten Commandinents were written for men and applied to men exclu
vely." We must, then, revise them to meet the needs of our time and bath uses,” or a new code "wholly distinct from that now restricted to observance by men," s feminine Decalogue, should be compared for the guidance of women. It may be un seemly to suggest that the problems which distress Mr. Harvey are of his own cra tion, but surely, with whatever delicacy we state it, this is the fact. That the Deca- logue was not meant for women he proves by a study of its terminology, thus: If it recognised the right and the souls of women it would command not "Thou shalt not coret thy neighbour's wife," but "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's con sort. Very odd conclusions indeed may be obtained if we construe ancient texta in the spirit of a conveyancer. It is plainly true that the primitive society to which the Decalogue va given did not accord to women a position of equality with med But no one can read the Old Testament and believe that women were considered by the children of Israel creatures of no import ince, outside and beneath the moral law. The Ambassador does not appear to recog nise that there has been through hundreds and thousands of years a continual develop ment of opinion upon the rights of women. The state of women under the Mosaic lay may not have been leal, but it was cer tainly far better than f the condition of Bayage women. A woman in medara Eng- fand may not yet have attained perfect equality men, hat abe in tread pr many restrictions hich bound her grande other, and she has many rights high her eat-grandmother had hardly thought of demanding. We may still commonly pect of women a higher standard of conduct than weg demand from men, Gertnit
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