oological garden to
which some mischievous visitor had fed too many bonbons. The owner was
damaged because the brute might die or be injured in the sight of the
patrons, but aside from that view of the case no harm was done and no
account taken of so trivial a matter.

No matter what the injury she sustained, whether it crippled her
physically or blighted her mentally and made life to her the worst curse
that could be inflicted, she had no appeal. The wounded feelings of one
of her male relations received due consideration, and he could recover
the money-value he might set upon the injury to his lacerated mind. This
is still the letter and the practice of the law in many places, even in
America.

If she had no male relations, the injury did not count, and no "person"
being injured everything was lovely, and prayers went right on to the
God who, being no respecter of persons (provided they were free, white,
adult males), enjoyed the incense from altars whereon burning "witches"
writhed in agony and helpless young girls plead for mercy under
the loathed and loathsome touch of the "St." Augustines* and "St."
Pelayos,** whose praises are chanted and whose divine goodness is
recounted by Christendom to-day.

* "To Augustine, whose early life was spent in company with
the most degraded of womankind, is Christianity indebted for
the full development of the doctrine of Original sin."
--Gage.

"All or at least the greater part of the fathers of the
Greek Church before Augustine, denied any real original
sin."--Emerson. "The doctrine had a gradual growth, and was
fully developed by Augustine."
--Waite.

** "The abbot elect of St. Augustine, at Canterbury, in
1171, was found on investigation to have seventeen
illegitimate children in a single village. An abbot of St.
Pelayo in Spain, in 1180, was proved to have kept no less
than seventy mistresses. Henry III, Bishop of Liege, was
deposed in 1274 for having sixty-five illegitimate
children."
--Leeky, "Hist, of European Morals."

"This same bishop boasted, at a public banquet, that in
twenty-two months fourteen children had been born to him. A
license to the clergy to keep concubines was during several
centuries levied by princes."--Ibid.

"It was openly attested that 100,000 women in England alone
were made dissolute by the clergy."
--Draper, "Intel