rent of God on earth; that woman is placed in subordination to
him by the direct command of God. In the Hindu law we read, "The
husband of a woman is her deity;" and in the Ramayana, "A husband is
the god of his consort." The New Testament says, "Man is the head of
the woman, but the head of the man is God;" "Man is the glory of God,
but woman is the glory of man. For the man is not of the woman, but
the woman of the man." The Apostle likewise declares, "I suffer not a
woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in
silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve." This position of the
Apostle was based on the Hebrew account of the creation of the first
woman from the rib of the first man, and of the sentence of God upon
her in consequence of her sin in eating the apple: "Thou shalt be
subject to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." Few persons
have a conception of the extent to which this representation has
moulded the opinions and feelings of the Christian world. The origin
of the view is obvious: the desire of the stronger for homage, and
the willingness of the weaker to reflect that desire in their
conduct. Is it a sound view? or is it a fallacy and a superstition?
or is it a mixture of truth and error?

For those who believe in the infallibility of every word of
Scripture, the subject is taken out of the province of natural
reason, conscience, and expediency; and there is nothing to be said.
They hold by the current tradition as the explicit will of God. But,
at the present day, there is an increasing proportion of persons who
look on the Hebrew narrative of the origin and earliest experience of
our race in the garden of Eden, as a legend, similar to kindred
narratives in other literatures. They are led, by teachings of
philosophy and science which they cannot resist, to the conclusion,
that the Almighty did not produce the human species by an arbitrary
and wholly exceptional interposition; but created them just as he did
the other species--through a law of development. It seems to them
incredible, that man and woman were made separately, in succession,
the latter exclusively for the former. They are obliged to suppose
that man and woman were created simultaneously--the differentiation of
sex having gone on in the lower types for incomputable ages, causing
humanity to appear in its earliest rise as male and female. So,
instead of saying, "The man was not made for the woman, but the woman
for t