SOME QUOTATIONS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9736, 26 May 1897, Page 4

SOME QUOTATIONS.

The earlier portion of Genesis, as may!* supposed, comes in for a good deal of " It is important," we are told, " te - jtotsV. that equal dominion is given to woman over every living thing, but not one word is **& giving man dominion over woman.", Al regards Eve's part in the drama fn the Garden of Eden, Mrs Stanton is "ego&Uy pleased with her attitude whether as amyth in an allegory or as the heroine of so historical occurrence." This is very gjaxi' fying. We are further told that tb« unprejudiced must be impressed with "the courage, the dignity, ana the lofty anib.w™ of the woman " :—- : "The tempter evidently hadaprofoun* knowledge of human nature, and saw'aM glance the high character of the person a* met by chance in his walks in the garden* He did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by rich jewels, rich dresses, worldly luxuries, or pleasures, but with the P r _*f* of knowledge, with the wisdom of the goo** Like Socrates or Plato, his powers of con* versation and asking pu_ling questionswere no d«<ubt marvellous, and he rouserTia the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking Q°*&B and talking with Adam did not._tt*J« Compared fc_> Adam, she appears to graa* advantage through the entire drama." From the beginning to the end, in fact, t« : conduct of Eve is " so superior to that*' Adam." Mark the "bo." Indeed, tM conduct of the father of the race is described, - as " to the last degree dastardly " — " . . - "When the awful time of reckoning comes. . . . Adam endeavours to shsew himself behind the gentle being he has** clared to be so dear. ' The woman ThO* gayest to be with mc, she gave mc andl«» eat,' he whines—trying to shield hanw at his wife's expense ! We are amazed i*a* upon such a story men have built-»P * theory of their superiority ! n v But although the new revisers defend w* = out and out, they show a somewhat I^ 9 charitable feeling towards some of ** '- sisters. Sarah is " not recommended es W example to the young women of our day, *• she lacked several of the cardinal viriaefl \ Rebekah's character is "lacking —*"*?? sense of honour" ; Rachel was & thief *** deceiver, and had "little regard JM.JM reputation of her husband," and so on. «P° not all the men of the Old Testamentft? bad. "Moses's conduct towards the ws* daughters of- the priest at the well B»°£* that there were some sparks of chivalry' M** and there in a few representative souls,, 9°«£ withstanding the contempt for the genera!." But it is a subject of comp»«»* that men should be called the "* l BMr God" and women " the daughters of TO**' Again*, it is affirmed that as soon as W*n??S ' Paradise " he began by degrees to W ; *J* ■ his own shoulders all he could ofluVcwgt; and place it on' woman," and he has, it **j??*. to be inferred, been doing so ever WPP* - But it is, perhaps, unnecessary to]Wi»?JE:iH t matter fwtlwr. _m work ia hardly <s *J# ■£t -

*__t*rtotind readers in Great Britain, fKver it may do in Amenca. It is cer- _££ not clever, and nt Muei, many people •11 think, it comes perilously near beuig blasphemous.

THK MODERN MARRIAGE MARKET, Jeune has an article in the Apnl raaVf dm raying to some statements _T„iss Marie Corelli concerning the modern Griggs market. Her ladyship thinks the ♦hnrof "The Sorrows of Satan " is nmSen in drawing the picture she has done, iff Mmc reproach- have always been Kad on society which Mario Corelli «_eV- mothers have always been accused T-criticing their daughters for money, V Ttrt«akoof the jewels and settlements f fa ric? huaband ; aud the cry of the fi ,!_ve market" is us old as the world •♦-.if But, asks Lady Jeune, is it true ? SJre may bo circumstances surrounding ioe marriages which lend colour to the SScstion that girls have sold themselves for money, but such cases, Lady Jeune laid, are exceptions. In the same way objects to, and protests most i£*fi"lv acainst, Marie Corelli's statement are "brought out" in the ?£•£" to be sold as «any unhappy Armenian girl "-a statement Lady Unae asserts "as false as it is ndiculons ; '•Does' Marie Corelli really believe that the brieht, happy, pretty girls we see in London bafrooms all go thero for the purpose of Mhibiting their charms to the richest and most desirable suitor ? Does she think that •very e»ri rtarts in life vith the avowed and o nen intention of making the best of her looks for such a purpose? \\ c say that _eh an idea is monstrous; alwolutely false of the girls, and equally untrue and unjust « regards their mothers." If girls are watched in ballrooms or at any other of their amusement*, Lady Jeune can see no trace of the demoralising influences which Mane Corelli says are sapping all that is pure aud sweet in their nature. If such an accusation were true, it certainly, Lady Jeune thinks, needs more confirmation than the facts Marie Corelli brings forward to prove jt, and her ladyship's experience leads her to quite a different conclusion.