A Morsel of B.M. Palmer

Feb 16, 2010 by desiringvirtue

“The fact is, that all comparisons between the [husband and wife], as to which should be pronounced the worthier are shallow and impertinent. Each is the best in its place; and neither is perfect without the other. The distinction of sex runs through the entire nature of both, so that they differ as truly in their spiritual, as in their corporeal structure; but this very distinction forbids the comparison between the two. What is called the weakness of woman is really her strength. It springs from the more exquisite delicacy of her organization, both intellectual and physical, by which she is fitted for the more delicate and tender offices which she is called to discharge. The dependence to which all this adapts her is not her degradation, but her glory. It betrays, then only the folly of him who is unable to distinguish betwixt subordination and inferiority; and who fails to remember that subordination in office often obtains where there is absolute equality in rank. There is not a bitterer bitter to a true woman than this disparagement, which degrades her in the eyes of him she is herself bound to honor.”

-The Family, by B.M. Palmer

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