AN ATTEMPT TO SOLVE THE WOMAN QUESTION. BEING AN EXAMINATION OF ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF FEMALE A PRESENTATION OF ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE PROPOSED CHANGE IN THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY. BY CARLOS WHITE. HANOVER, N.H.: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. BOSTON: LEE & SHEPARD. 1870. 324.3 W583e Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massa chusetts. BOSTON: Stereotyped and Printed by Rand, Avery, & Frye. WE of the "softer" sex, though not by any means really so soft as we are complimented and coaxed into appearing, have no call, and mostly no desire, to force ourselves into the province of men. We feel that we are not fitted for it. Female doctors (though all honor be to those heroic, selfsacrificing women who are capable of undertaking such a profession), female missionaries, travellers, and life-long devotees to science, art, or philanthropy, are, and always will be, rare and peculiar cases, not to be judged by ordinary rules. The average number of us are content to leave to men their own proper place; but none the less resolutely ought we to keep our own, one of the first "rights" of which is, the supreme rule of all domestic concerns. - Miss Muloch. Equally blasphemous, and perhaps even more harmful, is the outcry about "the equality of the sexes," — the frantic attempt to force women, many of whom are either ignorant of, or unequal for, their own duties, into the position and duties of men. The same. The difference between man's vocation and woman's seems naturally to be this, one is abroad, the other at home; one external, the other internal; one active, the other passive. He has to go and seek out his path; hers usually lies close under her feet. Yet each is as distinct, as honorable, as difficult; and, whatever custom may urge to the contrary, if the life is meant to be a worthy or a happy one, each must resolutely and unshrinkingly be trod. - The same. 3 |