Editorials from the Hearst NewspapersBrisbane, Arthur
Philosophy
Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
Brisbane, Arthur
Editorials; Essays
Give a man one young child to take care of FOR ONE DAY, and when
you return to him you find a semi-imbecile, half-tearful
creature.
In every great man's life you hear some remark of this sort:
"How can I work, Maria, if you let the children make such a
noise?"
Well, how could the millions of Marias work with the children
hanging to their skirts all through history? ----
But a better day is ahead for woman, and we are proud to point it
out to her.
Wise men begin to wonder what we shall do when the earth is fully
peopled? Shall we kill surplus babies, or what shall we do?
There will be no surplus babies. Nature will arrange that.
For every two human beings on earth two new ones will be born.
Wars will be ended. Common sense will have done away with the
unnecessary illness which now robs millions of mothers.
No woman will have more than two children. Education will be
understood. Women will not be slaves to their babies. They will
be admired and thanked and made happy before the babies arrive
--instead of being half ashamed, as at present.
The rearing of children will be simple. Each woman, instead of
devoting twenty years of her life to child slavery, will have
practically her whole life to devote to other things. She will
be able to cultivate her mind. She will have more of a hold on
Mr. Selfish Man, and he will have to pay more attention to her.
WOMAN'S hour of full mental development will arrive with the
final and complete population of the globe, just as man's day of
real mental growth will come after he shall have mastered the
forces of nature and learned the elements of true social science.
----
Even then we do not anticipate that repulsive "equality" between
men and women which is so much prated about.
The complete human being is not A MAN, nor is it A WOMAN. The
COMPLETE human being is a man AND a woman. The TWO MAKE ONE.
Each
will contribute a share to the perfection of the whole. That was
the way it was planned from the beginning, and we think we could
prove it, if this column were six feet longer.
THE COW THAT KICKS HER WEANED CALF IS ALL HEART
An estimable and very intelligent lady criticises modern
education, saying, "So much brain is forced into the girl
nowadays that it crowds out her heart." ----
At the risk of shattering the foundations of romance and poetry,
it must be said here once and for all that the heart has nothing
whatever to do with the emotions. It is simply a pump, and a
large part of its work consists in pumping blood to the brain.
The greater the brain, the greater and more active the heart must
be. A serpent, with little or no brain and a cold disposition
all around, gets along very nicely with little or no heart.
Those who speak of the heart as opposed to the mind mean to speak
of unreasoning sentiment as opposed to intellectual strength.
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