The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

The soul must support its own supremacy or die.

It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.