...than when yielding reverence and deferential attentions to an aged parent, however weak and infirm T And the pupil, the servant, or the subject, all equally...is for the interest of females, in all respects to con98 form to the duties of this relation. And it is as much a duty as it is for the child to fulfil...

...from thy book, offer my objections to them, and then throw before thee my own views. Thou sayest, ' Heaven has appointed to one sex the superior, and...reference to the character or conduct of either.' This is an assertion without proof. Thou further sayest, that ' it was designed that the mode of gaining...

...Catharine Beecher expressed in characteristic phraseology the prevailing ideas of sex relations in 1840: "Heaven has appointed to one sex the superior, and to the other the subordinate station," she observed, "and this without any reference to the character or conduct of either. It is therefore...

...were separate for a reason. God gave women a special calling. Catherine Beecher argued in 1837 that "heaven has appointed to one sex the superior, and to the other the subordinate station, [but] it is not because it was designed that [woman's) duties or her influence should be any the less...

...paragraphs from thy book, offer my objections to them, and then throw before thee my own views. Thou sayest, "Heaven has appointed to one sex the superior, and...reference to the character or conduct of either." This is an assertion without proof. Thou further sayest, that "it was designed that the mode of gaining...

...superiority and subordination, and it is impossible to annihilate this beneficent and immutable law . . . Heaven has appointed to one sex the superior, and to the other the subordinate station.*" Yet in her own life Catharine had found this "Divine economy" more restraining than liberating, and...

...natural divinely ordained inferiority. "Heaven has appointed to one sex the superior, and to the othei the subordinate station, and this without any reference to the character or conduct of either."24 In this essay, Beecher was specifically criticizing the outspoken abolitionist Angelina...

...enslavement. Instead, Catharine believed women should depend on and be subservient to men. She wrote, "Heaven has appointed to one sex the superior and to the other the subordinate station."5 Her contradictory perception of women as morally superior yet subordinate to men was resolved...

...that women had no right, or a lesser right, to petition or to speak. To Catherine Beecher's claim that "Heaven has appointed to one sex the superior, and to the other the subordinate station," Angelina Grimke answered bluntly: "This is an assertion without proof." The rights of men and women...

...confronting to all those relations that demand subordination, with propriety and cheerfulness . . . Heaven has appointed to one sex the superior, and to the other the subordinated station, and this without any reference to the character or conduct of either. It is therefore...