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to woman, has been repeated in every age by Rabbis and High Priests, who
find the Eden of life in the poet's picture of the human family, before
woman aspired to taste the fruit of the tree "to be desired to make one
wise;" when there was as yet no misunderstanding of the object for which
man and woman each were made: "He, for God only; she, for God in him."
That the world was a paradise while man's wisdom sufficed for her who
was to behold God only through him, has been the teaching of creeds not
yet dead. There is a lesson in the little Samaritan maiden's repetition
of the first transgression, as well as in its repetition a thousand
times since. He that runneth may read in it this moral of the symbol,
legend, or verity of Holy Writ, whichever way we may regard the story of
the bite of the apple, viz.: that a desire _to know_ was evidently an
element in woman's original psychical nature, be it original sin, or
otherwise; and correspondingly endowed, as is, just as evidently, her
physical organization, to gratify this desire, we may conclude that she
will compel some of the educational institutions of the age to her
service in its accomplishment.

I am glad that the recent alarm of Dr. Clarke, certainly the most
rousing of our time, has been sounded. Rung out from his high tower of
professional eminence and authority, it must and does attract attention.
It is a cry of "Halt!" and let us see where we are going. So, rude and
harsh as are many of its tones, discordant with truth as we can but
believe some of his statements, and more of his conclusions, I am glad
it has been sounded. His facts are momentous. Let us heed them, and
charge the sin where it belongs. The book will lead to investigations
and in the end to an improvement in methods, and a higher, more
thorough, education of women. Dr. Clarke thinks "that if it were
possible to marry Oriental care of woman's organization to her Western
liberty and culture of the brain, there would be a new birth, and a
loftier type of womanly grace and force." But his conclusions seem to be
that this is impossible, and, since they cannot be united, of the two
types of women, the brain-cultured, intellectual women of the West, and
the Oriental women, "with their well developed forms, their brown skins,
rich with the blood and sun of the East," he prefers the latter.

Two years since I visited some portions of the East, where these
primitive Oriental types of womanhood are to b