Woman's Position In History

The position of women has varied a good deal in the history of the ages. In the remotest times, among the rudest peoples, women had more public influence than in post-Homeric Greece, in Rome and in the great eastern empires, except perhaps in Egypt, where we hear of great queens and where the woman was in a sense the head of the family. The "matriarchate" is not a new idea, but a primitive institution. Indeed all the most "advanced" ideas are a return to savage ideas, trom which circumBtances we may argue pretty much as we please. If the object of institutions be content and a quiet life, then the Zulus and Hindoos may be said to have solved the question of woman. Polygamy and seclusion may have aaswered very well for many centuries, but our aspirations tend in an posite