HER SPHERE & HER FIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1772, 10 June 1913, Page 2

HER SPHERE & HER FIGHT.

MISS CHRISTIE'S BOOK. CORRESPONDENT'S LETTER ON IT. Appended is a letter from a correspondent who argues that from the Bynopsis of tho book, "Tho Advance of Woman," which appeared in Saturday's Dominion, a mifltnko must surely huvo been made in the title :— Dear Imogen,— You do, not tell us what exactly is the conclusion Miss Christie wishes us to draw from her book, "The Advance of Woman," and from your article I should judgo she has made a mistake in her title, which she surely must have intended to 1)0 "Tho Advanoo of Man." For if on her first appearance the female—actually alone in her predominance and predominating alono through ages—could evolve 110 perfected form of her own sex, tat only that of.the male, if sho then sot herself by selection, "always oil the'part of tho female" (I quote your point) to develop his size and strength above her own* docs is not sacm to prove that tho only perfected form the female oould conccivo of was the inalo?

Again, \after the advent of man, if primitive woman, still the dominant sex, supreme in family and tribe, 6et to work (of her o\yn free will, as you submit) to raise up sons against whose prowess she oould not possibly make a stand, what earthly ground has sho for the lament in her latest tale of woe—that woman has boon held the weaker vessel and her claims for conturies have bsen subservient to those of man? Surely Sho cannot make a grievance of this fact, if for it woman, and woman nlotiie, is responsible! If tho female in general, when appaientlv destined to inhabit the earth, bent all tier powers to evolve the male, and if woman in particular, having produced man, then proceeded, in pure lunacy, ono would imagine, to. develop lier sons into beings by whom she must inevitably be dominated, then whero does her presontday claim of the equality of the sexe3 como in? When tho sexes wero not—m their dual relation—thero was no equality. When woman wns'snpremo there was none. At that time woman, dominated, and sho was free. But sho struggled to. beconio subservient, and she laid hot freodom at the fest of lier sons—her lords. Surely, again, there is not equality—for men, aa yet, have not done anything so weak. _ So I submit that Miss Christie's reasoning, as given in your articlo, yields to ' those others" who are not of our sex a right to claim incontestably that woman's progress through tho centuries .is mereh- tho .advance of man. I do not say tnis is so; I only point out that if Miss Clmstie s reasoning holds, I ilo not sso how wiy mere femalo woman is over again to withstand in argument tho superiority of male man—triumphing.—l am,^