PART II.
OBJECTIONS TO THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMAN. NATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF WOMAN. LOVE. MARRIAGE. LEGAL REFORMS. SUMMARY.
OBJECTIONS TO THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN.
I.
What arguments do the adversaries of the emancipation of women use to refute the equality of the rights of the sexes?
Some, theosophists of the old school, claim that one half of humanity is condemned by God himself to submit to the other half, because, they say, the first woman sinned.
Not wishing to depart from the firm ground of justice, reason and proved facts, we will not argue with this class of adversaries.
Others, who claim to be imbued with the modern spirit, and pretend to be disciples of the doctrines of liberty, condemn woman to inferiority and obedience because, they say, she is weaker physically and intellectually than man;