George Romanes, whom no one
could accuse of misogyny, in his essay on 'the mental differences
between men and women.' See Essays (Longmans, 1897), pp. 113 ff. And
the statements of the text are supported by Mr. Havelock Ellis' _Man
and Woman_ (Contemp. Science Series). Mr. Ellis is sometimes less
decisive than Mr. Romanes. But see capp. xiii, xiv.

[20] Tennyson's _Princess_; cp. his _Memoir_ by Hallam Tennyson,
(Macmillan, 1897), i. 249.

[21] Prov. xxxi. 10 ff.

[22] 1 Cor. xi. 5.

[23] _Lambeth Conference_, 1897. Report on Religious Communities, pp.
57 ff.

[24] See Paris, _Quatenus foeminae res publicas in Asia Minore Romanis
inperantibus attigerint_ (Paris, 1891).

[25] Ramsay, _Paul the Traveller_, p. 268.

[26] Mark x. 19; cf. Matt xix. 18, 19; Luke xviii. 20.

[27] Cited from Exod. xx. 12 according to the LXX, which assimilates
the passage to Deut. v. 16.

[28] Col. iii. 21. In 2 Cor. ix. 2, the only other place where the
word is used by St. Paul or in the New Testament, it means to
_stimulate by emulation_.

[29] Accompanied with circumcision and sacrifice.

[30] See Dr. Taylor, _The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles_, pp. 55-58,
and Sabatier, La _Didache_, pp. 84-88, both very suggestive passages.
Cf. Edersheim, _Life and Times of Jesus_, App. xii, and Schuerer,
_Jewish People_, Div. ii. vol. ii. pp. 319 ff.

[31] 1 Cor. vii. 21, 23.

[32] Philem. 16.

[33] 1 Tim. vi. 1.

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DIVISION II. Sec. 6. CHAPTER VI. 10-20.

_The personal spiritual struggle._

[Sidenote: _The spiritual struggle_]

The ethics of Christianity are, as has appeared, social ethics, the
ethics of a society organized in mutual relationships: and Christianity
is concerned with the whole life of man, body as well as soul, his
commerce and his politics as well as his religion. But because this
requires to be made emphatic, does it follow that we are to neglect or
depreciate the inward, personal, spiritual struggle? Are we to give a
reduced, because we give a better balanced, importance to 'saving one's
own soul,' that is preserving or recovering into its full power and
supremacy one's own spiritual personality? Of course not: because
social health depends on personal character. The more a good man
throws himself into social, including ecclesiastical, duties the more
he feels the need of character in himself and others. And the more
serious a man is {238} about his character, the more deeply he feel