e guidance of
the masses. Unbridled ignorance is a dangerous force; as dangerous as
an unbridled horse, unless it be that the horse exhibits intelligence
enough to know where it is headed for and how to avoid obstacles en
route.

And even as the laws of a community are made for the intellectually
undeveloped, so the commandments were compiled for the spiritual
guidance of the uninitiated.

We trust that it will not shock the sensibilities of the "pious" when
we affirm and maintain and insist that the ten commandments are not
"from God" in the letter of the statements, as postulated by Theology.
They bear all the earmarks of the ancient Hebrew race-mind, which
placed a man's "neighbor's wife" in the same category with "his ox and
his ass and his house" and his other property and possessions.

There is but one commandment of the Most High God, alias Eros, and
that is so interwoven into the fabric of creation that we cannot break
it if we would, although we may and do break ourselves in trying to
live in defiance of its immutability.

"We cannot wrong the universe!"

Our moral standards, in so far as they relate to the sexes, are at
present the logical descent of Hebrew adherence to phallic worship,
engrafted into the Roman outgrowth of the God-idea. Both the Hebrew
and the Roman customs maintained the inferiority and the consequent
subjugation of woman, despite the fact that the Roman Church exalted
the Virgin as a personality; but the postulate of the Church that Mary
was so exalted by a miracle, which never could be repeated, killed any
forlorn hope which might have lurked within the female breast
regarding a possible emulation of her example. No other woman might do
more than cringe and crawl and beg and whine; or cajole and wheedle
and buy the Holy Mother's intercession, which intercession, even if
successful, could at best but secure her an eternal job in the
Heavenly hierarchy, where, sexless, companionless, mateless, anaemic,
she could look all day at a male God whom she could never presume to
reach.

Rather a lonesome outlook for eternity, and it is small wonder that
woman got discouraged at the prospect. The miracle is rather that she
endured it so long.

But the Roman system had at least one virtue. It instilled into the
mortal mind of its people a sub-conscious realization of the ideal of
monogamy; not an ideal monogamy by a long way, but a monogamic ideal.
They are quite different; but inasmuch as it