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Show THE WKOXCED WOJUS. BT '. a. CABOT. The Triune says of the nrrrigea woman i w;;h much more to sinilar erjrc: ) : "tne hts made for herself a j.!ace. thjti.-h on the very edge cf the pit. and society i cy "which we here mean decent womanhood) refuses, with perhaps per-haps a reasonaote instinct of se.f-pro-tcction to give her an inch of safe stand.ng greiuna. . . . The vcrv excess of animal or emotiona! nature wnich caused Eer to fad renders h ;m-possit'le ;m-possit'le to reach her by any ma-cnineiy ma-cnineiy of generalizing systeui or rules. ' lnen, ai'ter giving &a account of an expenmcnt now making at Brighton. ilLgland, for the redemption of fal.?n women, says : '"A falien woman, to be saved, must come in contact, not with a system or rule, but with another woman." Tue Tribune was supposed at one time to know nd appreciate, at least to some extent, the grand doctrines of Charles Fourier, aud it surely caDnot have entirely forgotten his noble for mula for the cure of all evds, "the absorbent suustitution of the opposite good." If it is terribiy and mortifying y true that deeeut wowannood refuses to give her wronged sister an inch of safe standing grouud, the remedy is, to take her by the hand and make common com-mon cause with her against the wronger, giving her safe standing grouud everywnere in God's uuiversc. It is a suiy and shameless slander to say that woman tails by the "very excess ex-cess of her animal and emotional nature." na-ture." tine, falls ?. vie dm to the un-bnd.ed un-bnd.ed lusts of men who have taken care to make the standing ground very safe for themselves, while they have undermined her pathway in every direction. And the meanest of all their deeds ii educating decent womanhood to believe be-lieve their purity is preserved by aiding aid-ing to destroy their sisters. Is there, can there be a lower deep than this? It is necessary that a fillen woman should come in contact, not with a system sys-tem of rules, but with justice and love in all women. But the hrst thing nec- essary is that she be saved from contact con-tact with the tallen and lustful man, who has always been the cause of her wrong. Man, as society is now, aud has been in times past constituted, has the power, he is the active aggressor, the selfish tyrant. Womau is the passive pas-sive victim, the sufdertug slave, lo put a stop to tne evil of the wronged woman, let man stop wronging ner, and substitute the opposite good. For injustice aud oppression substitute substi-tute jus. ice aud appreciation; for animal ani-mal lust, brotherly love; instead of al-luwiug al-luwiug her to excite your lower instincts, in-stincts, iet her inspire you to noble deeds and a higher uie: Let every woman, in her thought of her suffering sister, aud her attitude to her, substitute sisterly love aud support, the divinest tenderness, for the mau-iuspired contempt aud 1 atU-mg, atU-mg, the 1 ain-hoher-ihan thou leemig with which she has hitherto helped lo crucify her. Let her trauoler her loathing and contempt to the cjmfort-able cjmfort-able aud respectable hypocrites who make the weakness ol women au excuse tor degrading her, whose only sin Is ministering to their sensuality. fctioug as man and lust are, womau and love are stronger; and my sisters only need fairly to see this to act upon it. It ought not to be possib.e to-day to say the false and cruel things which men utter about women, aud it will uot long be so id all women will uuite to make it impossible. God speed the new day. The Kevolution, Jan. UO, 171. |