THE two sources from which, perhaps, modern civilization has
derived its noble and ennobling ideal of woman are Christianity and
the Feudal System. In Oriental countries woman has been uniformly
devoted to a life of ignorance, infamy, and complete stagnation.
The Chinese shoe of to-day does not more entirely dwarf, cramp, and
destroy her physical powers, than have the customs, laws, and
social instincts, which from remotest ages have governed our Sister
of the East, enervated and blighted her mental and moral life.
Mahomet makes no account of woman whatever in his polity. The
Koran, which, unlike our Bible, was a product and not a growth,
tried to address itself to the needs of Arabian civilization as
Mahomet with his circumscribed powers saw them. The Arab was a
nomad. Home to him meant his present camping place. That deity who,
according to our western ideals, makes and sanctifies the home, was
to him a transient bauble to be toyed with so long as it gave
pleasure and then to be thrown aside for a new one. As a
personality, an individual soul, capable of eternal growth and
unlimited development, and destined to mould and shape the
civilization of the future to an incalculable extent, Mahomet did
not know woman. There was no hereafter, no paradise for her. The
heaven of the Mussulman is peopled and made gladsome not by the
departed wife, or sister, or mother, but by houri--a figment of
Mahomet's brain, partaking of the ethereal qualities of angels, yet
imbued with all the vices and inanity of Oriental women. The harem
here, and--"dust to dust" hereafter, this was the hope, the
inspiration, the summum bonum of the Eastern woman's life With what
result on the life of the nation, the "Unspeakable Turk," the "sick
man" of modern Europe can to-day exemplify.
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