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84:5.1 In [[self]]-[[perpetuation]] [[woman]] is man's [[equal]], but in the [[partnership]] of [[self]]-[[maintenance]] she labors at a decided disadvantage, and this [[handicap]] of enforced [[Motherhood|maternity]] can only be [[compensated]] by the [[enlightened]] [[mores]] of advancing [[civilization]] and by man's increasing sense of acquired [[fairness]].
84:5.2 As [[society]] evolved, the sex [[standards]] rose higher among [[women]] because they suffered more from the consequences of the transgression of the [[sex]] [[mores]]. Man's sex standards are only tardily improving as a result of the sheer sense of that [[fairness]] which [[civilization]] demands. [[Nature]] knows nothing of [[fairness]]—makes woman alone suffer the pangs of [[childbirth]].
84:5.3 The [[modern]] [[idea]] of [[sex]] [[equality]] is [[beautiful]] and [[worthy]] of an expanding [[civilization]], but it is not found in [[nature]]. When might is right, man lords it over woman; when more [[justice]], [[peace]], and [[fairness]] prevail, she [[gradually]] emerges from [[slavery]] and [[obscurity]]. Woman's [[social position]] has generally varied inversely with the [[degree]] of [[militarism]] in any [[nation]] or [[age]].
84:5.4 But man did not consciously nor [[intentionally]] seize woman's [[rights]] and then [[gradually]] and grudgingly give them back to her; all this was an [[unconscious]] and unplanned [[episode]] of [[social]] [[evolution]]. When the time really came for woman to enjoy added [[rights]], she got them, and all quite regardless of man's [[conscious]] [[attitude]]. Slowly but surely the [[mores]] [[change]] so as to provide for those [[social]] [[adjustments]] which are a part of the [[persistent]] [[evolution]] of [[civilization]]. The advancing [[mores]] slowly provided increasingly better treatment for [[females]]; those [[tribes]] which [[persisted]] in cruelty to them did not [[survive]].
84:5.5 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76_-_The_Second_Garden#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adamites] and [[Nodites]] accorded [[women]] increased recognition, and those groups which were [[influenced]] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:5._THE_ANDITE_MIGRATIONS migrating Andites] have tended to be influenced by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 Edenic teachings] regarding [[women]]'s place in [[society]].
84:5.6 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_china#Ancient_era early Chinese] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece Greeks] treated [[women]] better than did most [[surrounding]] peoples. But the [[Hebrews]] were exceedingly distrustful of them. In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occident] woman has had a [[difficult]] climb under the [[Paul, the Apostle|Pauline]] [[doctrines]] which became attached to [[Christianity]], although Christianity did advance the [[mores]] by imposing more stringent [[sex]] [[obligations]] upon man. Woman's estate is little short of hopeless under the peculiar degradation which attaches to her in [[Islam|Mohammedanism]], and she fares even worse under the teachings of several other [Orient|Oriental]] [[religions]].
84:5.7 [[Science]], not [[religion]], really [[emancipated]] woman; it was the [[modern]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialism factory] which largely set her free from the confines of the [[home]]. Man's [[physical]] [[abilities]] became no longer a vital [[essential]] in the new [[maintenance]] [[mechanism]]; [[science]] so changed the conditions of living that man power was no longer so superior to woman power.
84:5.8 These [[changes]] have tended toward [[woman]]'s [[liberation]] from [[domestic]] [[slavery]] and have brought about such a [[modification]] of her [[status]] that she now enjoys a [[degree]] of [[personal]] [[liberty]] and [[sex]] determination that practically [[equals]] man's. Once a woman's [[value]] consisted in her [[food]]-producing [[ability]], but [[invention]] and [[wealth]] have enabled her to [[create]] a new world in which to [[function]]—[[spheres]] of [[grace]] and [[charm]]. Thus has [[industry]] won its [[unconscious]] and unintended fight for woman's [[social]] and [[economic]] [[emancipation]]. And again has [[evolution]] succeeded in doing what even [[revelation]] failed to accomplish.
84:5.9 The [[reaction]] of [[enlightened]] peoples from the inequitable [[mores]] governing woman's place in [[society]] has indeed been [[pendulum]]like in its extremeness. Among industrialized races she has received almost all [[rights]] and enjoys exemption from many [[obligations]], such as [[military]] [[service]]. Every easement of the [[struggle]] for [[existence]] has redounded to the [[liberation]] of [[woman]], and she has directly benefited from every advance toward [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy monogamy]. The weaker always makes disproportionate gains in every [[adjustment]] of the [[mores]] in the [[progressive]] [[evolution]] of [[society]].
84:5.10 In the [[ideals]] of pair [[marriage]], woman has finally won [[recognition]], [[dignity]], [[independence]], [[equality]], and [[education]]; but will she prove [[worthy]] of all this new and unprecedented accomplishment? Will [[modern]] woman [[respond]] to this great [[achievement]] of [[social]] [[liberation]] with idleness, indifference, barrenness, and infidelity? Today, in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century twentieth century], woman is undergoing the crucial test of her long world [[existence]]!
84:5.11 Woman is man's [[equal]] [[partner]] in [[race]] [[reproduction]], hence just as important in the unfolding of racial [[evolution]]; therefore has evolution increasingly worked toward the [[realization]] of [[women]]'s [[rights]]. But women's rights are by no means [[men]]'s [[rights]]. Woman cannot thrive on man's rights any more than man can prosper on woman's rights.
84:5.12 Each [[Gender|sex]] has its own distinctive [[sphere]] of [[existence]], together with its own [[rights]] within that [[sphere]]. If woman aspires [[literally]] to enjoy all of man's rights, then, sooner or later, pitiless and emotionless [[competition]] will certainly replace that [[chivalry]] and special [[consideration]] which many [[women]] now enjoy, and which they have so recently won from men.
84:5.13 [[Civilization]] never can [[obliterate]] the [[behavior]] gulf between the [[Gender|sexes]]. From age to age the [[mores]] [[change]], but [[instinct]] never. [[Innate]] [[maternal]] [[affection]] will never permit [[emancipated]] woman to become man's serious rival in [[industry]]. Forever each sex will remain supreme in its own [[domain]], domains determined by [[biologic]] [[differentiation]] and by [[mental]] dissimilarity.
84:5.14 Each sex will always have its own special [[sphere]], albeit they will ever and anon overlap. Only socially will [[men]] and [[women]] [[compete]] on [[equal]] terms.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_84 Go to Paper 84]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 84 - Marriage and Family Life]]
84:5.1 In [[self]]-[[perpetuation]] [[woman]] is man's [[equal]], but in the [[partnership]] of [[self]]-[[maintenance]] she labors at a decided disadvantage, and this [[handicap]] of enforced [[Motherhood|maternity]] can only be [[compensated]] by the [[enlightened]] [[mores]] of advancing [[civilization]] and by man's increasing sense of acquired [[fairness]].
84:5.2 As [[society]] evolved, the sex [[standards]] rose higher among [[women]] because they suffered more from the consequences of the transgression of the [[sex]] [[mores]]. Man's sex standards are only tardily improving as a result of the sheer sense of that [[fairness]] which [[civilization]] demands. [[Nature]] knows nothing of [[fairness]]—makes woman alone suffer the pangs of [[childbirth]].
84:5.3 The [[modern]] [[idea]] of [[sex]] [[equality]] is [[beautiful]] and [[worthy]] of an expanding [[civilization]], but it is not found in [[nature]]. When might is right, man lords it over woman; when more [[justice]], [[peace]], and [[fairness]] prevail, she [[gradually]] emerges from [[slavery]] and [[obscurity]]. Woman's [[social position]] has generally varied inversely with the [[degree]] of [[militarism]] in any [[nation]] or [[age]].
84:5.4 But man did not consciously nor [[intentionally]] seize woman's [[rights]] and then [[gradually]] and grudgingly give them back to her; all this was an [[unconscious]] and unplanned [[episode]] of [[social]] [[evolution]]. When the time really came for woman to enjoy added [[rights]], she got them, and all quite regardless of man's [[conscious]] [[attitude]]. Slowly but surely the [[mores]] [[change]] so as to provide for those [[social]] [[adjustments]] which are a part of the [[persistent]] [[evolution]] of [[civilization]]. The advancing [[mores]] slowly provided increasingly better treatment for [[females]]; those [[tribes]] which [[persisted]] in cruelty to them did not [[survive]].
84:5.5 The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76_-_The_Second_Garden#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adamites] and [[Nodites]] accorded [[women]] increased recognition, and those groups which were [[influenced]] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:5._THE_ANDITE_MIGRATIONS migrating Andites] have tended to be influenced by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 Edenic teachings] regarding [[women]]'s place in [[society]].
84:5.6 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_china#Ancient_era early Chinese] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece Greeks] treated [[women]] better than did most [[surrounding]] peoples. But the [[Hebrews]] were exceedingly distrustful of them. In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occident] woman has had a [[difficult]] climb under the [[Paul, the Apostle|Pauline]] [[doctrines]] which became attached to [[Christianity]], although Christianity did advance the [[mores]] by imposing more stringent [[sex]] [[obligations]] upon man. Woman's estate is little short of hopeless under the peculiar degradation which attaches to her in [[Islam|Mohammedanism]], and she fares even worse under the teachings of several other [Orient|Oriental]] [[religions]].
84:5.7 [[Science]], not [[religion]], really [[emancipated]] woman; it was the [[modern]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialism factory] which largely set her free from the confines of the [[home]]. Man's [[physical]] [[abilities]] became no longer a vital [[essential]] in the new [[maintenance]] [[mechanism]]; [[science]] so changed the conditions of living that man power was no longer so superior to woman power.
84:5.8 These [[changes]] have tended toward [[woman]]'s [[liberation]] from [[domestic]] [[slavery]] and have brought about such a [[modification]] of her [[status]] that she now enjoys a [[degree]] of [[personal]] [[liberty]] and [[sex]] determination that practically [[equals]] man's. Once a woman's [[value]] consisted in her [[food]]-producing [[ability]], but [[invention]] and [[wealth]] have enabled her to [[create]] a new world in which to [[function]]—[[spheres]] of [[grace]] and [[charm]]. Thus has [[industry]] won its [[unconscious]] and unintended fight for woman's [[social]] and [[economic]] [[emancipation]]. And again has [[evolution]] succeeded in doing what even [[revelation]] failed to accomplish.
84:5.9 The [[reaction]] of [[enlightened]] peoples from the inequitable [[mores]] governing woman's place in [[society]] has indeed been [[pendulum]]like in its extremeness. Among industrialized races she has received almost all [[rights]] and enjoys exemption from many [[obligations]], such as [[military]] [[service]]. Every easement of the [[struggle]] for [[existence]] has redounded to the [[liberation]] of [[woman]], and she has directly benefited from every advance toward [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy monogamy]. The weaker always makes disproportionate gains in every [[adjustment]] of the [[mores]] in the [[progressive]] [[evolution]] of [[society]].
84:5.10 In the [[ideals]] of pair [[marriage]], woman has finally won [[recognition]], [[dignity]], [[independence]], [[equality]], and [[education]]; but will she prove [[worthy]] of all this new and unprecedented accomplishment? Will [[modern]] woman [[respond]] to this great [[achievement]] of [[social]] [[liberation]] with idleness, indifference, barrenness, and infidelity? Today, in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century twentieth century], woman is undergoing the crucial test of her long world [[existence]]!
84:5.11 Woman is man's [[equal]] [[partner]] in [[race]] [[reproduction]], hence just as important in the unfolding of racial [[evolution]]; therefore has evolution increasingly worked toward the [[realization]] of [[women]]'s [[rights]]. But women's rights are by no means [[men]]'s [[rights]]. Woman cannot thrive on man's rights any more than man can prosper on woman's rights.
84:5.12 Each [[Gender|sex]] has its own distinctive [[sphere]] of [[existence]], together with its own [[rights]] within that [[sphere]]. If woman aspires [[literally]] to enjoy all of man's rights, then, sooner or later, pitiless and emotionless [[competition]] will certainly replace that [[chivalry]] and special [[consideration]] which many [[women]] now enjoy, and which they have so recently won from men.
84:5.13 [[Civilization]] never can [[obliterate]] the [[behavior]] gulf between the [[Gender|sexes]]. From age to age the [[mores]] [[change]], but [[instinct]] never. [[Innate]] [[maternal]] [[affection]] will never permit [[emancipated]] woman to become man's serious rival in [[industry]]. Forever each sex will remain supreme in its own [[domain]], domains determined by [[biologic]] [[differentiation]] and by [[mental]] dissimilarity.
84:5.14 Each sex will always have its own special [[sphere]], albeit they will ever and anon overlap. Only socially will [[men]] and [[women]] [[compete]] on [[equal]] terms.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_84 Go to Paper 84]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 84 - Marriage and Family Life]]
