ult, it was mine."
That's the kind of a man to start a world with. The Supreme Brahma
said: "I will save her but not thee." And she spoke out of her
fullness of love, out of a heart in which there was love enough to make
all her daughters rich in holy affection, and said: "If thou wilt not
spare him, spare neither me. I do not wish to live without him, I
love him." Then the Supreme Brahma said--and I have liked him ever
since I read it--"I will spare you both, and watch over you and your
children forever." Honor bright, is that not the better and grander
story?

And in that same book I find this "Man is strength, woman is beauty;
man is courage, woman is love. When the one man loves the one woman,
and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave Heaven, and
come and sit in that house, and sing for joy." In the same book this:
"Blessed is that man, and beloved of all the gods, who is afraid of no
man, and of whom no man is afraid." Magnificent character! A
missionary certainly ought to talk to that man. And I find this:
"Never will I accept private, individual salvation, but rather will I
stay and work, strive and suffer, until every soul from every star has
been brought home to God." Compare that with the Christian that
expects to go to Heaven while the world is rolling over Niagara to an
eternal and unending Hell. So I say that religion lays all the crime
and troubles of this world at the beautiful feet of woman. And then
the church has the impudence to say that it has exalted women. I
believe that marriage is a perfect partnership; that woman has every
right that man has--and one more--the right to be protected. Above all
men in the world I hate a stingy man--a man that will make his wife beg
for money. "What did you do with the dollar I gave you last week? And
what are you going to do with this?" It is vile. No gentleman will
ever be satisfied with the love of a beggar and a slave--no gentleman
will ever be satisfied except with the love of an equal. What kind of
children does a man expect to have with a beggar for their mother? A
man can not be so poor but that he can be generous, and if you only
have one dollar in the word and you have got to spend it, spend it like
a lord--spend it as though it were a dry leaf, and you the owner of
unbounded forests--spend it as though you had a wilderness of your own.
That's the way to spend it.

I had rather be a beggar and spend my last dollar like