[1] Generally these conventicles produced very many bastards, and the excuse they (the ministers) made for that, was, “where sin abounds the Grace of God super abounds; there is no condemnation in those that are in Christ.” Sometimes this: “The lambs of God may sport together; to the pure all things are pure.” Nay, generally they are of opinion that a man is never a true saint till he have a fall like that of David with Bathsheba, The true character of the Presbyterian Pastors and People of Scotland. Reign of King Charles II—and since the Revolution, p. 12.
[2] Mr. Mott a member of the Salvation army in Syracuse, having led astray another member, a young girl of seventeen and being requested to do her the justice of marrying her, replies that he has a great mission converting the world and has no time for marrying. He took an active part in the salvation meeting the other night. He says he was doing as Jesus did, and was free from sin. He carried the flag in the streets and prayed three times. There was great disorder and indignation at Mott’s impudence in praying and speaking.—Syracuse Daily Standard. 1883.
[3] The Book of Pitris.
[4] Light on the Path.
[5] Mrs. Gage, Chairman of the Resolution Committee.
[6] Both Marie Weston Chapman, and Whittier, immortalized this letter in verse, Mrs. Chapman by a spirited poem entitled: “The Times that try Men’s souls,” and Whittier in one called “A Pastoral Letter.” This “Clerical Bull” was fulminated with special reference to those two noble South Carolina women, Sarah M. and Angelina E. Grimke, who were at that time publicly pleading for those in bonds as bound with them, while on a visit to Massachusetts. It was written by the Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Adams, of Boston, author of “A South-side View of Slavery.”
[7] No man who remembers 1837 and its lowering clouds will deny that there was hardly any contribution to the anti-slavery movement greater or more impressive than the crusade of these Grimke sisters from South Carolina through the New England States.—Wendell Phillips.
[8] Who afterwards married Stephen Foster, one of the apostles of the anti-slavery cause.
[9] Decomposed eggs, the contents of stables, and even of outhouses, were hurled at the speaker and those assembled to listen.
[10] Rev. Samuel J. May first had his attention called to the wrongs of women under Church and State by a striking comparison of the two from the lips of a woman. Priestly opposition to new ideas, and to woman’s taking part in reform work, still continues to be manifest, as shown by the tour of General Weaver and Mrs. Lease, through the Southern States in the fall of 1892. “The notorious Mrs. Lease,” as she was termed, was met by hooting, howling, egg-throwing mobs, and in Atlanta “an eminent minister of the strongest religious denomination (Baptist) in the South” preached against the third party, September 18th, five days before that on which General Weaver and Mrs. Lease were to speak in that city. This sermon, reported by the Constitution, as a “red-hot roasting” declared against the political party that would employ women as speakers, “unsex American women,” as an evidence of the skepticism of the age. Nor is this the only recent instance of pulpit opposition to woman. After the formation of the woman’s National Liberal League, Washington, February 1890, clergymen in different portions of the country—Washington, Iowa, Massachusetts, etc., hurled their anathemas against this association, as inimical to Bible morality, and especially against the women leading in this step. In addition to these sermons, a Catholic Orphanage of seven hundred children, was instructed to pray against such demoralizing ideas; and beyond this, letters passing between influential women fell under United States supervision, and were opened in transit.
[11] Lucretia Mott foremost among these delegates, after this rejection decided upon holding a Woman’s Rights Convention, upon her return to America, which should present the wrongs under which women suffered. This was done, 1848, at Seneca Falls, N.Y.
[12] Through Senator Joseph E. Brown.
[13] Several ladies well known for their work in the enfranchisement of their sex, attended this trial, the New York Sun facetiously referring to the presence of “those eminent Presbyterians, Lillie Devereux Blake, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Susan A. King.”
[14] Report of the Washington D.C. “Republican.”
[15] Ably reviewed each week as they appeared, by Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake.
[16] Lenten Lectures, p. 56-7-114.
[17] WOMEN AND THEIR SPHERE! Rev. Dr. Dix, some weeks since, came to the front with a series of sermons in which, by unsupported assertion, he managed to demonstrate that women in the United States are no longer ornamental. The trouble in the mind of the reverend D.D. seems to be that women, having grown in the knowledge of the truth and of that liberty wherewith Christ maketh free, have concluded that their sphere is not to be man’s slave—his plaything, a human gewgaw, to be fondled, caressed, or kicked as the masculine mind may elect. If it is important for man to “know himself,” brave women have concluded that it is quite as essential for a woman to know herself, and with a heroism born of rights conferred by God Himself, women have in these latter days resolved to map out their own sphere independent of man’s dictation. They have made commendable headway. They have succeeded in shaking down a number of antiquated citadels where ignorance, superstition, prejudice, despotism and cruelty found refuge, and, as they tumbled, the breath of popular indignation has blown the fragments away like chaff in the grasp of a tornado. These brave women, finding out that—
CHORUS
set themselves about solving its problems for themselves and for their sex. Some of them asked for the ballot. Why? Because they wanted to obliterate from the statute books such laws as restricted their liberties and circumscribed their sphere. As wives they wanted to be the equals of their husbands before the law. Why not? As mothers they wanted to be the equal of their sons before the law. Why not? A thousand reasons have been assigned why not, but they do not answer the demand. What is wanted as prudent guarantees that the ballot will be wisely wielded by those upon whom the great right has been conferred? The answer is ready—intellect, education, a fair comprehension of the obligations of citizenship, loyalty to the Government, to republican institutions and the welfare of society. It is not contended that women do not possess these qualifications, but the right is withheld from them nevertheless, and by withholding this right a hundred others are included, every one of which when justice bears sway will be granted. This done woman’s sphere will regulate itself as does man’s sphere. The Boston Herald in a recent issue takes Dr. Dix to task for narrowness of vision and weakness of grasp in discussing “the calling of a Christian woman,” and then proceeds to outline its own views on the “sphere of capable women,” in which it is less robust than the reverend D.D. To intimate that the Infinite Disposer of Events favors the narrow, vulgar prejudices of Rev. Dr. Dix and his organ, the Boston Herald, is to dwarf the Almighty to human proportions and bring discredit upon His attributes in the midst of which justice shines with resplendent glory, but the demand is that women themselves shall determine for themselves the boundaries of their sphere. It is not a question of mere sentiment, it is not a matter of fancy or caprice. It is rugged question. It involves food, clothing, shelter. It means self-reliance. Women are not appealing to man’s gallantry, not to any quality of less importance than his sense of justice for their rights. Man is not likely to regard his mother with less affection and reverence because she is his father’s equal, and in the past, when women were more degraded than at present, the best men have found in women inspiration for their best work, good men will not find less inspiration for good work when women are emancipated from the thraldom of vicious laws, and crowned man’s equal in all matters relating to “sphere,” shall, by laws relating to physical and mental organism, take their chances in the world’s broad field of battle, demanding and receiving for work done in any of the departments of human activities men’s pay when they perform men’s work.—Indianapolis Sentinel, May 13, 1883.
[18] It is not a physiological cause which produced our present family with the father as ruler and owner of all property.—Kemptsky.
[19] By a singular lack of oversight in making up the title-page and lettering the cover, the words “Husband and Wife” have been printed as though they referred to objects of equal importance. Even the carefully trained eye of a former editor of the “Christian Register,” the Rt. Rev. F. D. Huntington, D.D., Bishop of Central New York, who furnishes a brief and cautious introduction to the volume, did not detect this error. It has been left to us to call attention to the incongruity of the title-page, and to give the sentiment of the book proper typographical expression. The conventional sobriety and ecclesiasticism of the title-page do not prepare one for the novelty of the contents. It is only by reading the book that we become aware of them. The sensation of the reader is somewhat the same as one would have on going into a building which from the facade appeared to be a plain, dignified Episcopal church, but which on entering he found to be a mediaeval circus. Not that there is any anything intentionally hilarious in the arena of this book or that it displays any athletic vigor of thought but that it is essentially novel and revolutionary. Dr. Gray is not unconscious of the novelty of his doctrine. “It is believed,” he says, “that the position of this essay is new to the discussion. It has not been urged or stated in print in England or America;” and, later on, he expresses a well-grounded belief that “some will smile” at his views as “antiquated and fanciful.” All of these claims may be readily granted. First, the doctrine is new. It is new at least in its present dress—as new as Adam would seem to be, if he put on a modern costume, dyed his gray hairs, and appeared in Boston as a social lecturer.—The Christian Register, Boston.
[20] Who has forgotten the sublime magnanimity of Artemus Ward, when he proposed on a certain occasion to sacrifice all his wife’s relatives? This is exactly what Dean Gray theoretically achieves. He not only abolishes his own wife’s relatives, but those of other men who have entered into the marriage relationship. He makes thorough work of it. Not only does he extinguish the wife’s sister as a relative, but also her cousins and her aunts. In fact, he even abolishes the mother-in-law. The luxury of a mother-in-law is granted to the wife, who by virtue of marriage becomes related to her husband’s mother, but is not granted to the husband, who has no relation whatever to the mother of his wife. As to the sisters, the cousins and the aunts, there may be a reason why Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., would view with dismay an equal addition to their number through the offices of matrimony; but the majority of men not blessed with a similar superfluity would hardly wish to forego this delightful form of conjugal perquisite.—Ibid.
[21] “One of the most learned colored men in the country is Alexander Crummell, Rector of St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. When he desired to study for holy orders he applied at Kenyon College, Gambier, O., but was refused admission. He made applications elsewhere, which were equally unsuccessful. He finally went to Oxford, England, and there took a full course. He is an eloquent preacher, and his congregation embraces a large number of prominent colored citizens.”
[22] I. Corinthians, v: 1.
[23] And one of the most bitter opponents to the admission of the women lay delegates to the Methodist General Conference.
[24] As reported in Syracuse, New York “Sunday Morning Courier”, March 4th, 1877.
[25] Rev. F. B. Neely, of Philadelphia, said that he was in favor of submitting the question to the annual conferences. He offered the following amendment to the report of the committee: But since there is great interest in this question, and since the church generally should be consulted in regard to such an important matter, therefore Resolved: That we submit to the annual conferences the proposition to amend the second restrictive rule by amending the words “and said delegates may be men or women” after the words “two lay delegates” for an annual conference so that it would read, “Nor of more than two lay delegates for an annual conference, and the said delegates may be men or women.” The amendment was seconded by Dr. Paxton.—Telegram. New York, May 12.—The debate on the admission of women delegates was one of the most lengthy in the history of the church. It occupied the time of the conference during the larger part of six sessions. It is the common remark, too, that never before was a subject contested in this body with such obstinacy, not to say bitterness. The struggle to obtain recognition from the chair was a revelation to those who did not know previously how fond Methodists are of speaking in meeting. The instant the chairman’s gavel fell, announcing the termination of one speech, fifty delegates or more were on their feet, and from fifty stentorian voices rang out the pitiful appeal, “Mr. Chairman!” This was the order of affairs from the beginning of the debate to the close. One delegate who was finally recognized proved to be so hoarse from his protracted efforts to get the floor that it was with difficulty he could be heard when he did get it.—Correspondence, Syracuse, N.Y. Sunday Herald, May 13.
[26] The final vote, excluding women from this conference and submitting the question of their eligibility to the annual conferences, stood: To exclude and submit, 237; against, 198—making a majority of 39 only of the total vote, while the laymen were so evenly divided that the change of one vote would have tied them. If now the annual conference shall decree by a three-fourths vote of all the ministers present and voting, that women are eligible, and if four years hence the general conference by a two-thirds vote shall ratify that decree, the fair sisters will thereafter have free course in that body. Otherwise they will be tolerated only as mere lookers-on. From the fact, that many who voted to submit the matter to the annual conference did so, not because they wish the women to come in, but merely as the best method of getting rid of a troublesome question for the time being, it looks as though their chances of gaining admittance as delegates four years hence were little better, if any, than in the present instance.—Sunday Herald Syracuse, N.Y. May 13.
[28] From “The Woman’s Journal.” Boston.
[29] Headed by Mme. Astié de Valsayre.
[30] When the temporal kingdom took possession of Italy, the rate of ignorance was 90 per cent. It has now been reduced to 45 per cent.
[31] The “Boston Herald,” Aug. 17, 1886, heading an article upon these statutes, “Copper Colored Blue Laws.”
[32] A husband is entitled to punish his wife when he sees fit. At first he is to use remonstrances; if these do not avail, he is to have recourse to more severe punishment. The confessor is at first bound not to pay much heed to women complaining of their husbands, because women are habitually inclined to lie.
[33] The scene in the convocation was animated, the public at large favoring the women. The senior Proctor being slow in his figuring, one of the “Gods in the Gallery” becoming impatient for the announcement of the numbers, shouted “Call in one of the ladies to help you, sir.”
[34] In Egypt, where women received the same education as men, very few children died—a fact noted in the absence of child mummies.
[35] “Eve lived 940 years, giving birth to a boy and a girl every year. Eve lived ten years longer
than Adam. They must give this first woman the best constitution in the world for while her
husband lived 930 years and communicated to his sons for several generations the principle
of so long a life (which is no less applicable to Eve than to him), he must have been of very
vigorous constitution; turn the thing as you will it will always be an argument from the
greater to the less to show that Eve’s body was better constituted than that of her husband.”
CHAPTER TEN
[1] As the resurrection of a material body to dwell in a spiritual heaven.
[2] When a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disheartened by the circumstance to see clearly the absurdity of this command. This is the condition of women, for whom I have the same compassion that I would have for a prisoner so long cramped in a narrow cage that he could not use his limbs. While many women are thinking their own thoughts there are others without so potent a brain, who have as yet, failed to see the absurdity of allowing others to think for them. For this condition of mental and moral blunders the church is responsible.—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
[3] When reading was first taught women in America, said Dr. Clemence S. Lozier, it was opposed on the ground that she would forget her father’s or husband’s name should she learn to read and write. Geography met with like opposition on the ground of its tendency to make her dissatisfied with home and desirous to travel, while the records of history show that the first public examination of women in Geometry, 1829, raised a cry of disapproval over the whole country.
[4] There are hard and ugly facts in this Christendom of ours, and its history includes the serfdom and nihilism of Russia, the drudgery of German women; the wrongs of the Irish peasant girl; the 20,000 little English girls sold each year to gratify the lusts of the aristocracy; all the horrors of the Inquisition; all the burnings of the witches; the slavery and polygamy of America and the thousand iniquities all around us; all these belong to the history of Christendom.—The Woman’s Tribune, Clara Colby, editor.
[5] This case decided adversely to woman’s right of suffrage by the territorial Supreme Court, was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, through the efforts of Mr. A. S. Austin, a young and energetic attorney of Olympia, the state capital; the points raised by Mr. Austin were, First: that the Bloomer case is a collusive one between the original plaintiff and defendants, and is a fraud upon all friends of equal suffrage in the state. Second: that the decision of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory was erroneous in two respects, to wit: that the statute of the territory conferring suffrage was constitutional, and that women are citizens.
[6] At a Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, N.Y.
[7] This was the case at the Republican nominating convention, Chicago, 1880.
[8] The liberty and civilization of the present are nothing else than the fragments of rights which
the scaffold and stake have wrung from the strong hands of the usurpers.—Wendell Phillips.
Index
- Abduction of girls, 84
- Abbey of Fontevrault, 31
- Abbesse, L’ de Jouarre, 47
- Accursed Sciences, The, 101, 273
- Act of Parliament for synonymous with Law of God, 56
- Adam, 24, 25, 26, 177, 191, 235
- Agamani Shadee, 13, 14
- Agar-Ellis Case, 138, 139, 206
-
Age of Protection, 79, 82, 90, 91
- “All, The,” 12
- Albany Law Journal’s “Curious Question”, 139
- Alruna or “Holy Women,” 21
- Ames-Nofri-Ari, goddess wife of Amun, 17
- American Colonies, laws against women, 122, 123, 124, 125, 147, 148
- American Sabbath Union, 232
- Amme, The, 282
- Anaesthetics discovered by Women Doctors, 104, 105, 106, 191
- Angelique Arnault, Mother, 32
- “An Unhallowed Thing”—a wife, 33, 38
- Arabs, Arabic, Arabian, 8, 17, 30
- Ark, Archa, Argo, 16, 20
- Aryans, the Ancient, 12, 159
- Assembly of Diana, 94
- Ashmolean Library of Oxford, 17
- Athens, 20, 129, 146
- Attack upon Science by the Church, 105
- Athrytes, a princess-prophetess, 18
- Atrium Vertae, discoveries in the, 19
- Atlantis, 129
- Auto da fe, 98, 135, 161
-
Aztec language, its Champollion, 7
- Babel, its meaning, 22
- Bac, Boc, Bacchus, Bacchus-Sabiesa, 54, 103, 111
- Banditti of the Middle Ages, 131
- Baptism of Nude Women, 93
- Baron of Jauioz, The, 72
- Berner’s Mr. Bill, 164
- Bhagavad Gita, 14
- Birchall Case, The, 136
- “Birds of the Night,” “Birds of Prey,” 111
- Black Mass, The, 76, 111
- Blessing the Nuptial Bed, 68
- Blockulu of Sweden, 273
- “Bloody Town, The”, 124, 125
- Blood hounds for hunting women, 89
- Boehme, Jacob, 24
- Borough-English, 66
- Boys, destruction of, 85
- Brank, The, 146
- “Breasted God, The”, 22
- Breton Ballad of Fourteenth Century, 72
- Bull Against Priestly Lechery, 41, 42
- “Burning Place of the Cross, The,” 98
-
Buying wives, 131, 132
- Caesar, deification of, 76, 77
- Canadian Review, 260
- Canadian Colonies, vice in, 85
- Canon Law, its injury to woman, 19, 37, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 60, 62, 213, 260
- Canons of Cathedral of Lyons, 67
- Cannon, George Q., 182
- Cape of Good Hope, Colony of, 78
- Cardinal Antonelli, 46, 59
- Catayana, compilation of laws, 13
- Cats, Black burned with witches, 94
- Cats, mesentery of, 102
- Catherine de Medicis, 27
- Catherine, wife of Peter the Great, baptized nude, 93
- Catholic Review, The, 284
- Celibacy, its notable consequences, 33, 36
- Chaldea, Ancient, 7, 101
- Chang Lai Sin, on Chinese women, 20
-
Charlemagne, his influence on the Church, 51;
- his Polygamy, 175
- Chastity Belt, The, 155
- Chastity of Concubinage, unchastity of marriage taught, 33, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48
- Chief High Priest, Egyptian, 17
- Child took precedence of Father, 8
- Chinese girl slaves to Europeans, 79
- Chili, Chilian women penitents, 47, 48
- Child criminals rapidly increasing, 91
- Chiniquy, Rev. Charles, 43-45, 257
- Chivalry injurious to women, 51
- Christine of Pisa, 51, 92
- Christian Party in Politics, The, 189
- Christianity teaches the existence of a superior and an inferior sex, 208
- Christianized Indians, laws for women of, 232
- Christianity of little value to civilization, 239
- Christendom dragged to darkness, 65
- Christian Register, The (Boston), 220
- Christian Union, The, 134, 225, 228
- Church, the Priest’s spouse, 32
- Church, The, and civilization antipodal, 243
- Churchman, The, 204
- Churching of women, 21, 28, 218
-
Chrysies, Priestess of Juno;
- importance of the office, 20
- Circe, a renowned physician, 106
- City of God, 207, 270, 274
- Civilization not dependent upon the Pulpit or the Press, 190
- Cleveland, Grover, as President, sends a gift to Pope Leo XIII, 64
- Code of Canon Law, 51
- Code of England, 150
- Code Penal of Italy, 161
- Code Penal of India, 79
- Code of Love, 261
- Code Napoleon, 160, 161, 255, 257
- Codes, two, of Morals, 20, 34, 48, 136, 163, 208, 215, 222, 234, 245
- Commercial Advertiser, The Pittsburgh, 46
- Commercial, The Cincinnati, 200
- Common Law Corrupted by Canon law, 52
- Commandments, The, 28, 223
- Common Law, 37, 58
- Common Mother, 8
- Common, Boston, The, 125
- Comforter, The, 112
- Community of women proposed, 51
- Concubines, priests’ known as “The Honored Ones,” “The Hallowed Ones,” 38, 163
- Convent of Penitents, 48
- Conversation with women forbidden, 29
- Corpuscles, The, Pacinian, 101
- Councils, Church, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 39, 50, 54, 94, 95, 96, 210
- Council Houses of the Six Nations, 10
- Council of Matrons to whom all disputed questions were referred, 10
- Court of Arches, 55
- Courier, The Syracuse, 287
- Cuissage, droit de, 68, 75, 85
- Coverture, 143, 155, 168
-
Cowyll, The, 159
- Dancing Mania cured by women doctors through Similia Similibus Curantur, 106
- Danes, Danish, Denmark, 11, 152, 155, 159
- Darkest Africa, 7, 169
- Darkest England, 169
- Darkest New York, 204
- Dark Continent, the children’s paradise, 202
- “Daughter of the Deity,” 17
- Daughters, sale of, 131, 133, 134
- Davenport’s Rules for his wife, 141
- Declaration of Montreal Women against the Confessional, 43
- Decretals, 25, 55, 57
- Delphian Shrine, The, 18
- Detention Houses of, 48
- “Devil Bride, The”, 111
- Diaz, President, his brave course, 47
- Digest of Hindoo Law, Colebrook’s, 13
- Disease of the Cloisters, 27, 34
- Doctors, Women discover Anaesthetics, 104
- Dodge’s Judge, grounds of decision in the “Lucy Walker Case,” i.e. Seney trial, 139, 140, 141
- Domstroii, The, 165
- Dowers, 157, 158, 159, 281
-
Ducking Stool, 122, 142, 146, 147
- Eastre, Eostre, 103
- Egypt, Egyptians, 9, 16, 17, 18, 21, 30
- England, 11, 78, 233
- Endowment House, 93, 183, 185
- Elementals, The, 24, 100, 101, 108
- Eton, its depravity, 85
- Evarts, Hon. Wm., on woman under the law, 20
- Evangelist, The N.Y., 213
-
Eve, 24, 25, 39, 177, 235, 283
- “Fathers”, The Christian, 24, 33, 42, 52, 235, 236
- Father takes name of child, 8
- Father-rule, 21
- Famines result from persecution of women, 125
- Feudalism, 76
- Feudal Lords, their claims, 66, 67, 68, 69, 80, 81
- Feudal Period, The, 67, 74, 161
- Finns, Finland before introduction of Christianity, 20
- Finland in 1892, 137
-
Fontevrault, Order of, Woman the General of the Order, power of its Abbesses, 31;
- its monks under the control of the nuns, 31
- Forum, recent discoveries in, 19
- Fou Fou, i.e., Father-Mother God, 24
- France, woman’s condition in, 67, 72, 160, 161, 196
- Frenchmen, cause of their decreasing size, 196, 197
-
Freidrich, William I, his concession to the lecherous demands of the Gavelkind, 152;
-
State, 69
-
State, 69
- Georgia River, its natives protect women, 134
- “Ghosts,” Ibsen’s, 163
- “Giftas,” to marry; Strindberg’s, 164
- Gifts of Intention, remarkable, 14
- Girl’s birth, an infliction, 28, 161
- Girl, a piece of property, 133, 134
- Girls rule, Gynaikokraty, 11, 134, 135
- Glanville, 60, 157
- Globe, The Boston, 205
- “Go Back,” Wala’s command to the Roman Emperor Druses, 20
- Goddesses superior to Gods, 8
- “God’s Hand,” “God’s Star,” 17
- Good Hope, Cape Colony; legalized vice there, 78
- Governor of British China on legalized vice there, 78
- “Government Women,” “Queen’s Women,” 77
- Government of the United States borrowed from that of the Six Nations, 10
- “Gowan, The”, 159
- “Gragas, The” earliest Iceland law, 96
-
Greek Church baptizes its converts nude, 93
- “Hallowed Ones, The,” “Honored Ones, The,” 38, 163
- Hatasu, the light of the XVIII Egyptian dynasty, 17
- Hatred of Old Women among Christian nations, 117, 196
- “Hearth Penny” of St. Peter, 50
- Heads of the Church, their vice, 82
- Heke, a witch, wise woman, female deity, 103
- Herald, the Chicago, 90
- Herald, the Boston, 286, 287
- Herald, the New York, 47
- Herald, the Rochester, 179
- Herald, the Syracuse Sunday, 287
- Hexen Sabbat, i.e. Walpurgis Night, 103
- Hindoo Maxims regarding women, 13, 15
- Holiness, superior of the unmarried, 32
- Holiness, superior of male animals, 28
- Holy women, 20
- Homer stole the Iliad and the Odyssey, 18
- Hopkinson Association of Congregational Divines, 212
- Houses of Detention for women, 48
- H.R.H., 70
- Husband cannot steal from wife, 136;
- HUSBAND and Wife, 220
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Hutchinson, Mistress Ann, tried for sedition and heresy in teaching men, 124, 125
- Impurity of soul and body throughout Christendom, 33
- Incubi, The, Incubus, 108
- Incontinence, of celibate priests, 33-48
- Independent, the N.Y., 226
- Inquisition, 28, 36, 40, 42, 58
- Inquisitors, Traveling, 98
- Inter Ocean, The Chicago, 145, 283, 284
- Ireland, its modern laws, 70
- Irish women, ancient forms of marriage, 158, 159
- Isis, Ish-Ish, Ishtar, Izdobar, 16, 18, 20, 250
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Ivan, the Terrible, 82, 122
- Jauioz, the Baron of, 72
- Jehovah, a double-sexed word, 22
- Jewish contempt of the feminine, 254
-
Johnson, Sir Wm., Power of Squaws, 10;
- Dr. Samuel Johnson on Milton, 177
- Journal, the Syracuse, 273
- Jurus, The, 56
-
Jus Primae Noctis, 74, 77
- Keeper of the Wampum, his Matriarchal descent, 10
-
Keshub Chunder Sen, declares English laws degrade women, 13
- Lachis of Athens, her ancient laws, 276
- Lady of the House, the Beginning and the End, 16
- Lange, on disappearance of ancient civilization in early days of Christian era, 30
- Leader, The Topeka, 91
- Legalized vice in Christendom, 80, 81, 82, 93
- Libertad, The, of Chili, 173
- Lords Spiritual, their claims, 68, 267
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“Lost Name, The,” “The Lost Word,” 32, 109
- Magic, “White” and “Black,” 102
- Magnetic condition, Four degrees of, 102
- Maiden Rents, Maiden Redemption, 75, 76
- Malabar, under the Matriarchate in XV Century, 11
- Man, his “curse,” 191, 192, 194, 195, 197, 198, 201, 203, 206, 241;
- Marco Polo, discovers Matriarchal customs, 8
- Marchetta, Marquette, 66, 67, 75, 77, 92, 131, 134, 152
- Margaret, St., 75
- Marriage a sacrament, 96
- Marriage, complex, 187
- Marriage Customs of England, 143
- Marriage of Equal Dignity, 158
- Marriage in Ancient Rome, 129
- Marriage in Russia, 166
- Marozia, her power over the Papal Throne, 31
- Martiagium, 8
- Martia, “The Just,” 56
- “Masterless Women,” 59, 113, 155, 158
- Matilda, Countess, her power over popedom, 255
- Matriarchate, The, form of United States government due to, 10
- Matriarchate, The, 8, 10, 11, 12, 21, 59, 129
- Matriarchal, 8, 9, 11, 16
- Mazzini, his prophecy, 231
- Medicine, its origin, 16
- Melancthon, 175, 185
- Memorial to President Cleveland by the National Woman Suffrage Association, 149;
- Memorial History of the American Episcopal Church, 244
- Merchetum Sanguinis, 74
- Metamorphosis, 95
- Mexico, the church in, 47
- Minister, a Presbyterian finds apologies in the Bible for illicit conduct, 208
- Milton favors polygamy;
- Mitakshara, the Compiler of, 14
- Monogamy woman’s doctrine, 188
- Morganatic marriage, 162, 163
- Moses, 9, 17
- Mother-rule, 8, 10, 13
-
Moors of Spain, 30;
- Mohammedan learning keeps one corner of Europe bright, 30
- Most pronounced doctrine of the Church, 30
- Mormons, 77, 92, 93
- Mormon, First Presidency of, 181;
- Mormonism, Bishop Lunt defends, 186;
- Mortality among infants and children, 197, 198, 200
- Mott, Lucretia, 209, 210, 212, 241
- Mund, The Mundium, 93, 131, 152
-
Mysterious interchange of germs, 86
- Nairs, The, under Matriarchal rule, 11
- “Name, The Lost,” 109
- Nation, The N.Y., 206
- National Reform Association, 189, 230, 232
- National Reformer, (London), 284
- National Woman Suffrage Memorial, 149
- Neferhotep, Princess, a priestess, 17
- Neith the Victorious, mother of gods and men, 9, 17
- Nekrasof, a Russian poet, 167
- New Delta, (N.O.), 268
- News, Daily; The (London), 262, 263, 266
- Nihilism, its cause, 82, 167
- Non-consent, not impair validity of marriage, 133
-
Notable consequences follow the establishment of Celibacy as a dogma of the church, 36
- Odelstling, The, 283
- Olga, Czarina, her policy of 800 years since, controls Europe to-day, 164
- Old women, hatred of, 117, 196
- “Only by sinning can sin be quelled,” 208, 257
- Open Court, The, 250
- Opposite teachings on marriage by the church, 33
- Oracles, ancient, from lips of a Priestess, 18
- Original Sin, woman the original sinner, 64, 65
- Otto, Cardinal, 35; Ottoborn, Cardinal Legate, Institutions of, 35, 36
- Outlawry, Scandinavian, 20, 160
- Owens, Caroline, her experience in polygamy, 182
-
Ownership of property;
- its remarkable effects, 159
-
Oxford Library, 17, 26
- Pacinian Corpuscles, The, 101, 102
- Paraclete, Convent of the, 31, 32
- Palladium, The, in woman’s charge, 19
- Pall Mall Gazette, 70, 83, 84, 268
- Panim Ivan, on Russian wives, 166
- Parthenon, the Temple of the Virgins, 19
- Paramount Council of the Zunis, 10
- Patriachate, The, 11, 21, 37, 54, 194, 237
- Paul, St., the first Jesuit, 26;
- Pastoral Letter of General Association Congregationalists of Massachusetts, 210, 211
- Pastoral Lenten of Rt. Rev. Cleveland A. Coxe, 218
- Peculiars, Woman’s Three, 159
- Penetralia, The, its secrets still unknown, 19
- Pentegram, The, key of the Two Worlds, 101
- Personal Rights Journal (Eng), 171
- Pestilence caused by Christian wars and persecutions, 125
- Peter the Great, head of the Greek church, his liaisons, 27
- Petit treason, the crime of, 136, 137, 154
- Petrouville, The Abbess, 255
- Pharaoh, 9, 17
- Phtha, Temple of, 18
- “Pilgrim Fathers, The,” 102, 123
-
Polygamy, Christian, 175;
- first synod of the Reformation to sustain, 175;
- “Dialogues in favor of”, 177;
- American Board of Foreign Missions sustains, 177;
- Missionary conference in Calcutta sustains, 178;
- endorsed as not contrary to the Bible, 179;
- of Charlemagne, 175;
- Valentinian laws favoring, 175;
- Luther sustains from the Bible, 175;
- Melancthon, Bucer and other early “Reformers” sustain, 175;
- Milton sustains, 176;
- Lord Seldon sustains, 176;
- Bishop Burnet sustains, 176;
- Rev. John Lyser sustains; Rev. Dr. Madden sustains, 177;
- Wm. Ellery Channing saw no prohibition in the New Testament, 177;
- Henry Ward Beecher quotes Milton, 177;
- “God endorses” “Bible favors”, 178;
- Rev. David O. Allen of American Board on, 179;
- Dora Young on, 182;
- Caroline Owen’s experience, 182, 183;
- Helen H. Jackson on, 184;
- its silent woes, 182;
- women slaves under; Mormons claim countenanced by the New Testament, 187;
- claim Christ as sustaining, 186
-
Pope Anastatius III, 255;
- Benedict IX, 108;
- Boniface IX, 25;
- Gregory XV, 42;
- Gregory XVI, 46;
- Honorius, 33;
- Innocent III 36;
- John X, 255;
- John XI, 255;
- John XIII, 258;
- Leo IX, 33;
- Leo XIII, 64;
- Paul IV, 42;
- Pelagius II, 36, 255;
- Pius IX, 31, 46, 64;
- Sergius III, 255;
- Sixtus III, 257;
- Sixtus IV, 68;
- Sixtus V, 35;
- Sylvester II, 108;
- Pope of the Hebrews, 64
- “Poet, The of Chivalry,” 51
- Potent Mother Goddess, 16
- President Cleveland sends a gift to Pope Leo XIII, 280
- President Cleveland, Memorial to, 149, 150
- Press, The (Philadelphia), 201
- Prices paid for torturing criminals, 115, 116
- “Principal Women of the Six Nations,” 10
- Property the test condition of a nation, 62
- Protective Chicago Agency for women and children, 145
-
Puritans The, Puritan Fathers, 27, 106, 122
-
“Queen’s Women,” 77, 81
- Record, The (Boston), 178
- Redemption of Blood, 74
-
Reformation;
- its rules for women, 63
- Refuge, no for woman, 125
- “Reichbote Der” Berlin, 197
- Rameses II; Rameses III, 18
- Recorder, the Methodist, 226
- Republican, the St. Louis, 279
- Republican, the Washington, 285
-
Rev. Nehemiah Adams, author of Pastoral Letter, 211;
- Rev. Dr. Ballantine, See Trial, 215;
- Henry Ward Beecher, 177;
- Edw. Beecher, Father Bodfisch, 230;
- Dr. Buckley, 225, 228;
- Thos. Bowman, Rt. Rev. Cleveland A. Coxe, 215, 254;
- Robert Laird Collyer, Wm. Ellery Channing, Athenase Coquerel, Dr. Craven, 214, 215, 254;
- Crummel Alexander, 222;
- Cuyler Theodore L., 213;
- Davidson (Evangelist) 87;
- Day, J. R., 228;
- Denhurst, Mr., 215;
- Dilke, S. W., 224;
- Dix, Dr. Lenten Sermons against women, 216, 217, 233;
- Douglas, David, “Wife, why dost thou weep?” 208;
- Gray (Chaplain) 209;
- Dr. Gouldbourne, 233;
- Gray, Geo. Zabriskie, D. D., 219;
- Healy, Bishop, 235;
- Huntington, Rev., 286;
- Hurlburt, E. B., 224;
- Kingsley, Charles (Canon), 65;
- Little, Dr. Charles, 234;
- Little-Knox, 220;
- Liddon (Canon), 233;
- Lyser, John, Littlejohn Dr., “Triennial Charge,” 233;
- Merrell (Bishop), 227;
- Moody, (Evangelist), 242;
- Neeley, F. B., 229;
- Patten, D. D., W. W., 215;
- Rothmeiler, Jacob, 228;
- See, Dr. Isaac, his trial, 254, 214;
- Sherman A., 216;
- Smith, Few, 215;
- Strong, Dr., President Baptist Theological Sem. 210;
- Tallmage, T. DeWitt, 86, 220;
- Tinsey, Thomas, 229;
- Turnstall, W. V., 223, 227, 233;
- Upham, Charles W.;
- Willis, Samuel Joseph, offers £100 reward for his wife’s return to him;
- Wiley, John, President Drew University, 227;
- Wilson, Mr., 215
- Review, the Louisiana, 268
- Rights divided, 52
- Ritualistic Episcopal church, 48, 49
- Rome, Romans, Roman Empire, 16, 18, 19, 28, 30, 37, 50, 60, 163
-
Russian Bride’s Lament, The, 167
- Sab, Saba, Sabasius, 103
- Sabbat, 12, 103, 111
- Sabbath, 12, 28;
- Sacred songs of Isis, 17;
- Sacrilegious child, 59, 64, 69, 223
- Sacraments, The Seven, 93
- Sacrifice of animal passions, 21
- Sacrifice of milk, 17
- Sadagora, “Pope of the Hebrews”, 64
- Sagas of Iceland, 161
- Sages, 104
- Sagthing, The, 164
- Sainio, Mrs., her crime of petit treason;
- Sala, a house, 151;
- Samokversof, 164
- Scandinavians, 20, 151, 160, 161
- Scarlet Letter of Shame, 146
- Sclavs, 11
- Scold’s Bridle, The, 142, 146
- Scold’s, law for punishment of, 147
- Seeress of Prevorst, 102, 274
- See Trial, 214
- Seigneural tenure in Canada, 76
- Seldon, Lord, “The Light of England,” 55, 176
- Self-development the first duty of life, 239
- Sermons on women, 214
- Service of Love, 260, 261
- Sentinel, Indianapolis, 285, 286
- Seven Evidences of possession, 101
- Shadee, Agamini, 13, 14
- Shrine, Delphian, the Pythia its priestess, 18
- Sibyls, Sibyline books, 18, 21
- Sin killed by sin, 41, 208
- Sin-offering demanded from mother, 28
- Sister, wife’s not related to husband, 218, 219
- Slavs, Slavonians, 164, 165, 166, 167
- Sod, 252
- Soma, a body, representing man, 12
- Songs, Witch, 95
- Songs, Russian Bride’s Lamentation, 167
- Souls, women no; no reason, 27
- Spencer, Herbert, 161, 280
- Spirit, the Holy is feminine, 22, 23
- Spiritual Courts, 51
- Standard, Daily, Syracuse, 262
- Standard, The Woman’s, 269
- Statute of Uniformity in religious opinions, 113
- Stridham, a woman’s property, 15
- Stindberg’s “Giftas” prohibited, 164;
- Stool, the Penitence for women, 146
- St. Thomas Aquinas on celibacy, 35
- St. Paphinutius, the martyr Bishop of Thebes, on celibacy, 35;
- Strothing, The, 164
- Story, A of To-day, 71
- Succubi, Succubus, 108
- Suicide, women driven to, 98
- Sultan of Egypt on Christianity, 132
- Summary of Solicitations, 42
- Sun, The New York, 47, 70, 173, 269
- Swrya, the Sun the source of life: woman represented by among the ancient Aryans, 12
- Synod, American, the first to try a woman for heresy, 124;
- Syros, i.e., God, 18
-
Syracuse, N.Y., 10, 85, 87, 88, 257
- Talmud, the, on cleansings for women, 254
- Terre Haute, (Ind.) Mail, 142
- Telegraph, (London), 138
-
Tetzel the great seller of indulgences;
- his remark, 29
- Thotmes III, preceded by Hatasu, in worship, 17
- Three Persons in Heaven balanced by Three Persons in Hell, 108
- Times, The London, 262
- Times, The Philadelphia, 220
- Times, The Bismark, 279
- Toledo Bee, the, 140
- Traffic in young girls, 84, 85, 90
- Transcript, The Boston, 182
- Tribune, The New York, 242, 262, 263, 266
- Tribune, The Woman’s, 241
- Truth, London, 233
-
Twelve Tables, law of, 20, 98
- Uncleanliness attributed to women, 28
- Union Labor Journal, 269
- Uniate Greek Church, 46
-
Usus, 97, 98, 99
- Vasist ha, 13
- Vayu, the swiftest of the gods, 12
- Veda, Vidya, 12, 13, 15, 103
- Vestal Virgins, the, 19, 20, 96
- Venice defies the Inquisition, 110
- Victoria, “Mother of Camps,” 152
- Victoria, Queen, 64
- Victims of Priests, 41
- Vidma, 103
- Virgins, Temple of the, 20
- Vjedma, 103
- Vladimir, Cazar the, 166
-
Vritra, a demon, 12
- Walker’s American Law, 153
- “Walker, Lucy Case,” the celebrated, 139, 141
- Wales, Welch, 233
- Walnut tree of Benevento, 273
- Walpurgis Night, 103, 112
- West End, its vices, 84
- Westminster Review, 144
- White Cross Society, 92
- Widow, 12, 160, 275
-
Wife, “An unhallowed thing,” 257;
- beating, 162, 166;
- dragged by rope about neck, 127;
- driven in harness, 166;
- holds power, 170, 171, 172;
- loses relationship to own family, 222;
- not name child, 138;
- not a person but a field;
- no right in law, 138;
- no right to teach children what husband does not believe, 139;
- no right as against husband, no freehold in dower, 157;
- payment for;
- religion ordered by husband, 138;
- to rear children as husband’s property, 139, 162;
- sold as a cow, 132;
- turning out of doors not cruelty, 170
- Will, The, 101
- Wir-Wissen, 103
-
Wives: advertising, 61, 170, 171;
- beating; burning alive, 135, 136, 137;
- burying alive, 166;
- buying, 131, 132;
- can steal from husbands, 137;
- decapitating wives, 137;
- drowning wives, 132;
- flogging, 136;
- husbands cannot steal from, 136;
- husbands property;
- not related to husband, 137;
- property willed to mistress by husband, 136;
- petit treason of, 136, 139;
- sale of, 132;
- sold as slaves to the church, 34, 35;
- services due to husband, 137;
- strangling, 132;
- driven to suicide, 37
-
Witch;
- bridle, 101, 117;
- conventicles, dances, doctors, 104, 105;
- discover anaesthetics, 104;
- principles of Homeopathy, 104, 106;
- Finders, 98;
- Hammer, 97;
- House, 123;
- Inquisitors, 98;
- marriage with devils, 108;
- not look person in the face, 100;
- Persecutors, Prickers, 96, 107;
- punishment of, 108;
- the profoundest thinker, 105;
- torture, 115, 116;
- trials, 119, 120, 127;
- rules searching for marks, 107;
- songs, 95;
- Sabbat, 111;
- Scotch burned; 99
- her son’s inhumanity; 99
- reputed flogged by son, 128;
- a woman of superior knowledge, 102
- Witches;
- Witchcraft, children of most tender years not escape, 100, 123;
-
Woman clothed with the Sun, 252;
- counted among animals, 200;
- degraded to the level of beasts, 198;
- government interference in her work, 196;
- her “curse”, 191, 196, 226;
- imprisoned for religious opinions in United States, 90;
- in underground labors, and children, 193, 194;
- less pay than man for same work, 196, 199; 201;
- married, the only class of slaves left, 153;
- naked baptized: rubbed in oil, 93;
- primal priest on earth;
- supreme as goddess, in heaven, 8;
- performs the most repulsive labors;
- pit of England, 21, 196;
- punished for man’s crimes, 149;
- severing the last link, 241;
- sinfulness of, 165;
- small value on her life, 165;
- speech with forbidden, 29;
- supreme wickedness of, subordinate to men in office, 176;
- testimony not received, 62;
- too impure to enter church, 25, 50;
- milk, to kill a fowl, 165;
- “The Wise,” 104;
- whipped half nude with rawhide, 124;
- with new-born babe at breast, 125;
- Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 232;
- Woman’s Journal (Boston), 268, 230;
- Woman’s National Liberal League, 285;
- Woman’s World, 282
- Woman’s Work in Belgium, 200;
-
Women, abduction of, 159;
- and girls reported missing, 90, 145;
- babbling punishment of, 147;
- baptized naked, 93;
- burned alive for petit treason, 154;
- as witches, buried alive, 154;
- Bible, not to read, 154, 155;
- the earliest doctors, 104, 192;
- declared witches, 104;
- drowned or burnt because of their knowledge, 105;
- discovered anaesthetics, 104;
- deputations of naked, 69;
- driven to suicide, 98;
- ducking, 147;
- churching, 28, 218, 226;
- classed among brutes without soul or reason, 27;
- harnessed with asses, cows, dogs, 198, 199, 200;
- hunted by blood-hounds, 88, 89;
- impure, too to take the Sacrament, 25, 50;
- in disgrace under the Commonwealth, 264;
- legislated for as slaves, 153;
- tongue nailed to tree for political opinion, 134;
- “masterless,” 155, 158
-
Women’s English Suffrage Journal, 139, 148, 155
- Zeus, 22
- Znat, Anahara, 103
- Zuni, 7, 1010