The fountain : with jets of new meanings . THE REFINEMENT OP CRUELTY. in cages!) exert the same powerful effect on children. The common charge, that boys are more cruel thangirls in the wish to deprive innocent and feeble birdsof their liberty, is groundless. The natural love ofownership and mastery—of possessing exclusively andcontrolling the existence of that which we love—is asstrong and formidable in one sex as in the culture eventually exalts this innate love;substituting beauty for tyranny, and wise love forignorant and selfish discipline. MOTHER NATURES DARLINGS. 25 Men
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . THE REFINEMENT OP CRUELTY. in cages!) exert the same powerful effect on children. The common charge, that boys are more cruel thangirls in the wish to deprive innocent and feeble birdsof their liberty, is groundless. The natural love ofownership and mastery—of possessing exclusively andcontrolling the existence of that which we love—is asstrong and formidable in one sex as in the culture eventually exalts this innate love;substituting beauty for tyranny, and wise love forignorant and selfish discipline. MOTHER NATURES DARLINGS. 25 Men and women associate freely together as bro-thers and sisters, and also in the most holy and del-icate relations of conjugal love; therefore, why maynot our boys and girls be permitted to grow up to-gether in the school, and in all the departments of thestate, as well as in the home and family circle ?. BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE WORLD TOGETHER. A child is a divine promise of something are all of us only dim, crude prophecies. Girldom, with its sweet femininities, is promisingonly when the world of u horrid boys is taken into theaccount with just valuations. In the family they live,and love, and fight, and laugh, and kick, and run, andeat, and play, and sing, and cry, and grow up not in the affairs of that larger family, called the 26 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. government, when they attain to the estate of men andwomen ? Why not ? Because a false religion, feedingand flattering a false custom, insists peremptorily,with terrible penalties of excommunication from goodsociety, that girls shall forever dress unlike boys,shall studiously refrain from running and climbing,shall make no visible demonstrations of bodily vigor,and shall do nothing and be nothing inconsistentwith the established masculine rules of feminine pro-priety. The dress of a girl is constructed so that it
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