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For the first time since beginning this review I have Ingersoll's essays before me, though I read them when t published. Believing that he was faithfully represented in "Notes," at least not misrepresented nor intentionally garb I trusted the "Notes," as I was obliged to do, on matters quotation, etc. Finding I had been misled, finding that gersoll's articles were garbled, misquoted, and their mean obscured, I was obliged, in necessary haste, to review a lit and have inserted a few ideas and excerpts in several prec ing chapters. This chapter I rewrite entire. To do justic quote, somewhat in extenso, what Mr. Ingersoll wrote on "woman question."

Ingersoll. "All the languages of the world are not su cient to express the filth of polygamy. It makes man a b and woman a slave. It destroys the fireside and makes vir an outcast. It takes us back to the barbarism of anim and leaves the heart a den in which crawl and hiss the sli serpents of loathsome lust. And yet Mr. Black insists t we owe to the Bible the present elevation of woman. Wh will we find in the Old Testament the rights of wife, mother, and daughter defined? Even in the New Testam she is told to 'learn in silence with all subjection;' that 'is not suffered to teach, nor to usurp any authority over man, but to be in silence.' She is told that the head of ev man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and head of Christ is God.' In other words there is the same ference between the wife and husband that there is between husband and Christ.

"The reasons given for this infamous doctrine are t 'Adam was first formed and then Eve;' that Adam was deceived; but that 'the woman being deceived was in tra gression.' These childish reasons are the only ones given the inspired writers. We are told that a man, indeed, ou

not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is in the image and glory of God;' but that the woman is the glory of man,' and this is justified from the fact set forth in the very next verse—that 'the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.' And the same gallant apostle says: 'neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.' 'Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as unto the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the saviour of the body; therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be subject to their husbands in everything.' These are the passages that have liberated women."

I here ask whether the Father by taking a splinter from the "sap" of the tree of logic, and testing its strength as if it were the whole tree, has done justice to an opponent ? This process is especially unfair to the great majority of the readers of the "Notes" who would think themselves contaminated by touching a North American Review containing one of Mr. Ingersoll's articles. No one expects a, reviewer to quote the whole book or article he reviews, but he should cite enough of it fairly to reflect the author's meaning.

But worse than paucity of quotation follows.

Lambert.—" Moses forbade these abominations (the licen tious modes of worship practised by women at the altars of Venus and Cybele), and for this you accuse him of taking away the 'rights' of women."

What will the reader say when he finds, by reading Mr. Ingersoll's articles, that this is a plain, unvarnished misstatement! And yet such will he find it. O prejudice! let charity charge to thee what illiberal souls would impute to wilful falsehood.

As to the comparative condition of the Hebrew and heathen

women as discussed by Mr. Ingersoll and the Father, it matters little, both being bad enough.

Some rays of light we see amidst thick darkness in the history of all nations-some glimmering stars of the olden time which have become suns in the intellectual and moral firmament of the present. All else how dark! Like the Father, when he says with regard to woman's position in heathen countries, "I refer you to these authors, as it would not be proper to quote their descriptions of life, manners and worship in those countries in a book like this," so I, with kindred delicacy, would rather refer than quote, when I write of the treatment to which women were subject under Jewish rule and law; for instance as delineated in the twenty-first and twenty-second chapters of Deuteronomy.

We are referred in the "Notes" to the incestuous marriages, as permitted in Egypt, Chaldea, Persia, Greece, etc.

But whom did Cain marry if not his sister? Whom did Abraham marry?

"And yet indeed she [Sarah] is my sister; she is the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife" (Genesis xx. 12). And by God's express command cousins married cousins (Numbers xxxvi. 10, 11). Again if a man refused to marry his brother's widow, she was commanded to spit in his face in the presence of the elders!

This is Jewish history written by Jewish historians under claim of inspiration!

With Renan, I regard Paul as the greatest of the apostles: not perfect nor free from the prejudices of his times; yet, always brave and fervently eloquent in the advocacy of truth as he believed it, he did more to break down the narrow partition wall of race which Judaism had erected than all the other apostles combined.

The right of woman is to fulfil the highest destiny which she is mentally, morally and physically qualified to reach. Law has made harsh discriminations against her, but her condition is being vastly improved. In England to-day she has But this is not the place to

a higher legal status than here. discuss specific measures of reform.

CHAPTER XV.

REPLY TO CHAPTER XIV.

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent-The Comparative Merits of Jews and HeathensCarrion Flesh for Strangers and Aliens-The God of the Jews Established Slavery" Exterminate" defined-William Penn and the Indians.

THE allegation that Eve was the cause of human sin, sorrow, and death, is denied by the Father, who terms her not. the cause but the occasion of evil. A pretty decided “occasion" was she who took the first bite and, with her nature defiled, passed the apple to her husband that he might eat of it and, like the gods, be wise and know good from evil.

As represented in Scripture, the snake was the first cause of transgression, woman the second cause, and Adam the third. It required a succession of causes to bring “sin into the world with all our woe," some six thousand years ago, in the face of science, which declares, modestly speaking, that man has inhabited this earth for tens of thousands of years, and that death reigned over the animal kingdom decades of thousands before man's advent. Yet stick to it:

"In Adam's fall

We sinned all."

For theology requires a denial of the gospel of the rocks, as well as a sacrifice of human sympathy, to maintain her structural symmetry. Churches, as constituted, could not be maintained without it. Regarding the comparative demerits of the Jews and of the "godless heathen," I remark, if ever there

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