1. "Hallam denies that respect for women is due to Christianity. "--Buckle.
2. "In England, wives are still occasionally led to the market by a halter around the neck to be sold by the husband to the highest bidder."--Ibid.
"The sale of a wife with a halter around her neck is still a legal transaction in England. The sale must be made in the cattle market, as if she were a mare, all women being considered as mares by old English law, and indeed _called_ 'mares' in certain counties where genuine old English law is still preserved."--Borrow.
3. "Contempt for woman, _the result of clerical teaching_, is shown in myriad forms."--Gage.
4. "The legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, _and is now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement_."--John Stuart Mill.
5. "I have no relish for a community of goods resting on the doctrine, that what is mine is yours, but what is yours is not mine; and I should prefer to decline entering into such a compact with anyone, _though I were myself_ the person to profit by it."--Ibid.
It will take a long time for that sort of morality to filter into the skull of the Church, and when it does the skull will burst.
6. "Certain beliefs have been inculcated, certain crimes invented, in order to intimidate the masses. Hence the Church made free thought the worst of sins, and the spirit of inquiry the worst of blasphemies.... As late as the time of Bunyan the chief doctrine inculcated from the pulpit was obedience to the temporal power.... All these influences fell with crushing weight on woman."--_Matilda Joslyn Gage_ in "Hist. Woman Suffrage."
7. "Taught that education for her was indelicate and irreligious, she has been kept in such gross ignorance as to fall a prey to superstition, and to glory in her own degradation... Such was the prejudice against a liberal education for woman, that the first public examination of a girl in geometry (1829) created as bitter a storm of ridicule as has since assailed women who have entered the law, the pulpit, or the medical profession."--Ibid.
1. "The five writers to whose genius we owe the first attempt at comprehensive views of history were Bolingbroke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Hume, and Gibbon. Of these the second was but a cold believer in Christianity, if, indeed, he believed in it at all; and the other four were avowed and notorious infidels."--Buckle.