Weed oppose it--Ernestine L.
Rose, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Address the
Legislature in favor of the Bill--Robert Dale Owen defends the Measure
in _The New York Tribune_--National Woman's Rights Conventions in New
York City, 1856, '58, '59, '60--Status of the Woman's Rights Movement
at the Opening of the War, 1861 472

CHAPTER XV.

WOMAN, CHURCH, AND STATE.

Woman under old religions--Woman took part in offices of early
Christian Church Councils--Original sin--Celibacy of the clergy--Their
degrading sensuality--Feudalism--Marriage--Debasing externals and
daring ideas--Witchcraft--Three striking points for consideration--
Burning of Witches--Witchcraft in New England--Marriage with
devils--Rights of property not recognized in woman--Wife
ownership--Women legislated for as slaves--Marriage under the Greek
Church--The Salic and Cromwellian eras--The Reformation--Woman under
monastic rules in the home--The Mormon doctrine regarding woman; its
logical result--Milton responsible for many existing views in regard
to woman--Woman's subordination taught to-day--The See trial--Right
Rev. Coxe--Rev. Knox-Little--Pan-Presbyterians--Quakers not as liberal
as they have been considered--Restrictive action of the Methodist
Church--Offensive debate upon ordaining Miss Oliver--The Episcopal
Church and its restrictions--Sunday-school teachings--Week-day school
teachings--Sermon upon woman's subordination by the President of a
Baptist Theological Seminary--Professor Christlieb of Germany--"Dear,
will you bring me my shawl?"--Female sex looked upon as a
degradation--A sacrilegious child--Secretary Evarts, in the
Beecher-Tilton trial, upon woman's subordination--Women degraded in
science and education--Large-hearted men upon woman's degradation--
Wives still sold in the market-place as "mares," by ahalter around
their necks--Degrading servile labor performed by woman in Christian
countries--A lower degradation--"Queen's women"--"Government
women"--Interpolations in the Bible--Letter from Howard Crosby,
D.D., LL.D. 752

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LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.

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