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Show A Specifically Feminine Culture All thut we now possess of methods and ot knowledge rules of commerce, forms of art kinds of religious life, means or Intercourse and co-opcratlon, have been produced b) men whites Pror Ocbrg Shnmcl In The International Interna-tional Monthl) fot Pebtuary Wa enn not sa) that our civilization Is In the true sense of the vioid asexual, as It were, neither masculine nor feminine In character on the contiar). It Is rather of a thoroughly masculine character. Almost all of our hlfcher oc-cup3tloii8, oc-cup3tloii8, because the) are tilled by men have been made to lit the masculine mas-culine Intelligence Ihe masculine ten-slon ten-slon of feeling and will Ihe result Is that they offer no suitable activities and positions for beings as dirTerently organized as women ate lu order that women should find such positions them Is need of entire!) new unal)ses and s) ntlu sen of the elements that go to make up life To Ignoic the peculiar pecu-liar organization of women and to nt temi t to find for them In the muscu line scheme of thlnt,s, instead ot utilizing utiliz-ing them tor rora!u lines of work for which no man Is fitted U Just as foolish fool-ish and superficial as It would be to confine peisons of sieclal girts to lln-sl lln-sl Hied laboi Womans characteristic bodll) nnd mental qualliles demanl spetlnl forms of activity In order that the highest civilization be attained the management of the household which took a form adapted to them and in which the) fount no ompetl tors In men bus hitherto supplied the desiiel kinds of actlvlt) and for this must bo substituted other Melds coi lespondlngl) tiansformed and )et tu be discovered It Is ver) probable thut in the administration or Justice In medicine and art In the Interrelation or hlntiir) ti business matters end In religious ulfaira Indeed In technl ue In the narrow Kcnse dlsilnctl) feml-iiino feml-iiino shudlnits are possible and that these ma) pi iduce changes and trans formations In tho highest degree fruit ful A few ver) slight and fragmin tat) proofs or thin are to be observe) here and theie at least In the clnmjln ot art there ire some women writers imong us ha aie not munitions to write like a man' but who are proud of the spneineally feminine note lie aai hlng ai pears to be true though It , asily proved In the case of w inters A purel) feminine jiosslhle In Its whole slgnlll-e slgnlll-e ,o women onl) a new v irlet) mo, perhaps event a new world of culttir is the highest and tt seems to me the most spirit IIh ileal that has proceeded from the woman movent |