Newspaper clipping of a lecture given by Dr. Chapin titled Woman and Her Work, regarding the rights of women to be educated and to be considered equals to men. Transcription: WOMAN AND HER WORK. ? LECTURE BY THE REV. DR. [] CHAPIN. Dr. Chapin lectured to a large audience last night at Mozart Hall on the above subject. Nearly all the Aldermen, the Common Council and the Ten Governors, with Mr. Postmaster [Isaac V.] Fowler, were present. He said that the originality of any thought is secondary to its truth. If it is old, it should be welcomed on account of respect due to age. Hi
Newspaper clipping of a lecture given by Dr. Chapin titled Woman and Her Work, regarding the rights of women to be educated and to be considered equals to men. Transcription: WOMAN AND HER WORK. ? LECTURE BY THE REV. DR. [] CHAPIN. Dr. Chapin lectured to a large audience last night at Mozart Hall on the above subject. Nearly all the Aldermen, the Common Council and the Ten Governors, with Mr. Postmaster [Isaac V.] Fowler, were present. He said that the originality of any thought is secondary to its truth. If it is old, it should be welcomed on account of respect due to age. His subject led him to consider whether woman is potentially what she ought to be. The relation between man and woman is the most beautiful expression of the great law of nature. Woman is simply the equal of man ?nothing more, nothing less. We have no right to determine what is woman ?s sphere by any arbitrary prejudices. I cannot recognize any such fact as man ?s rights or woman's rights; I only recognize human rights. Woman's orbit is the orbit of her humanity; and hence she ought to be man's equal ?equal before the world, before the law, as she is before God. And let no one be disturbed by visions of strong-minded women, with spectacles, lecturing on Kansas. The question is, what is truth, and not what are the imaginable consequences. Man may run against God ?s will' but cannot alter it. I urge that women should actually be something more than she has been held to be. She has been placed above the scale and cast below it; she has been man ?s slave and his empress. In one place you may see her the poor drudge of the wash-tub or the needle working to support a drunken husband-?; in another place we see her in some parlor, listening to the confectionary of small talk furnished by some dandy. Society around us is but little more than a modification of these two pictures. What we want is some way of deliverance for a woman from being a mere slave, and something more substantial tha
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