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Show READ AND REFLECT- Eeutob Eepobteb; Please allow me space In your paper to give vent tny feelings'. Hot many weeks ago an elder In the church, while occupying the pulpit pul-pit in the Mantl tabernacle, remarked: "Man Is moved to action by intelligence; woman by her emotions.'' Before expressing ex-pressing my Tiews I would ask If the person who made that statement w-e in a proper frame ot mind at the time, or It he bad ever given It the slightest consideration. I think a thorough coarse In psychology would do him good. Be may nave studied enough, however, to know that women Is as capable of Slving attention as man Is. Attention i clearly a power ot elf-alrotion. Kind Is both self -acting and self -direct, tag. The art ot learning is based on tbe power ot attention. Tew problems are too difficult for the stadea. woo can '.eonoentrtteittie power 6( attention. Does not a lady student keep equal mce with her brother ? Why does she ' aoM Merely following her In pulses nrl .inntinna? I think not. She korks with the same object in view as her brother, an I she graduates with Just as blgb honors. So their meutal activities toet be the same. Has she not the facnlties of knowing, feeling and willing? will-ing? My friend would probably say that she is only blessed ,with the o last named tacultiea;tbat tbe perceptive, IBpTesentaUve and elaboratlve faculties are not hers; that ber soul energies are not complete. Itoes Gordy or Ualtlvvin tflUDSSO? J 6ce two teachers enter their respective respec-tive echool-reomsLone a ladyy the other a gentleman Ske did not appear epn otiona I or nnpumve. one goes with the same object in view as he, . oy employing the elaborate 'faculties she . stinJles the child aUd ter teaaon dictates ft. in same plat- tormAud her work Is'm wmplete as his, 51 Aromas. al the UgUilPe and au,toiHative Judge ov .ue Ieraelltes for forty years. Study closely the actions oi Adames Ere in the garden ot Eden, and tbe oir eatnstso8 eonneoted with their partaking par-taking ot tUe forbidden fruit, and yon will find that it was the more than he who was guided by ker intelligence, her reason aad Judgment, and above all bar desire for kaowletrge. He Binned becanee be desired to be with ber, i.ia)i dmIa .Am a avfAnt nmntinnnl I will not comment farther, but ask my friend to give the subjeot due consideration, con-sideration, Studbkt. |