5.—“_With woman honoured, rises man to height_.”
“If a Hindoo principality is strongly, vigilantly, and economically
governed; if order is preserved without oppression, if cultivation is
extended, and the people prosperous, in three cases out of four that
principality is under a woman’s rule. This fact, to me an entirely
unexpected one, I have collected from a long official knowledge of
Hindoo Governments.”—J. S. Mill (“The Subjection of Women,” p. 100
note).
6.—“_With her degraded, sinks again in night_.”
“And you who have departed from the common tradition, how have you fared
in the race of life? Are your men as brave and fearlessly truthful, are
your women as courageous and honest as in the old days of ‘the maiden’s
choice’? Are the little worn-out child-wives of to-day likely to have
descendants like those of the damsels of your ancient epics? Where are
the deeds of high emprise, of daring valour, and of patient persistence
of the youths who were fired by the pure love of a woman? Ah! gentlemen,
with love life departs; there is no vitality in married life without
affection, and when love, the great incentive to action, disappears from
the family, leaving dry the streams of affection which should flow
between the children and parents, what must come of the race?”—Mrs.
Pechey Phipson, M.D. (“Address to the Hindoos”).
_Id._... “From all we know of the laws of life and its development it
would appear one of the foolishest things on earth for men to fancy that
they can debase the intellect lobes of women, and at the same time exalt
their own. No breeder of cattle or horses would think of debasing the
qualities, in the females, which he would desire to possess in the
males.
“No race in the future can either rule the world or even continue in
existence without improving the intellect of that race, and this
certainly cannot be done by depauperising the intellects of more than
half of the _progenitors_ of that race.”—Dr. E. Bonavia (“Woman’s
Frontal Lobes”).
8.—“.... _Earth’s advancing queen_.”
“Will man den ganzen Menschen studiren, so darf man nur auf das
weibliche Geschlecht seine Augen richten: denn wo die Kraft schwacher
ist, da ist das Werkzeug um so künstlicher. Daher hat die Natur in das
weibliche Geschlecht eine natürliche Anlage zur Kunst gelegt. _Der Mann
ist geschaffen, ueber die Natur zu gebieten, das Weib aber, den Mann zu
regieren._ Zum Ersten gehört viel Kraft, zum Andern viel
Geschicklichkeit.”—Immanuel Kant.