Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?