An American Virgin Would Never Dare Command;

Unbroken Evolution Under Uniform Conditions Pleased Every One -- Except Curates And Bishops; It Was The Very Best Substitute For Religion; A Safe, Conservative Practical, Thoroughly Common-law Deity.

There Have Been Times When The Church Seemed Afraid, But She Is No Longer. Analyze, Dissect, Use Your Microscope Or Your Spectrum Till The Last Atom Of Matter Is Reached; Reflect And Refine Till The Last Element Of Thought Is Made Clear; The Church Now Knows With The Certainty Of Science What She Once Knew Only By The Certainty Of Faith, That You Will Find Enthroned Behind All Thought And Matter Only One Central Idea--that Idea Which The Church Has Never Ceased To Embody--i Am!

The Great Word Evolution Had Not Yet, In 1860, Made A New Religion Of History, But The Old Religion Had Preached The Same Doctrinefor A Thousand Years Without Finding In The Entire History Of Rome Anything But Flat Contradiction.

The Common View Of Marriage As A Primitive Institution Implies In The Man More Than Arbitrary Superiority, Such As He Exercised Over The Child, Which Still Remained Free. The Woman's Slavery Was Assumed To Be For Life.

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