amburg,
certificates showing that they regularly attend church and also partake
of the sacrament."--Gage.

Even a lower depth than this is reached in England, France, Italy,
Switzerland, and Germany, and nearly every country of Europe, says the
same writer, "a system of morality which declares 'the necessity' of
woman's degradation, and annually sends tens of thousands down to a
death from which society grants no resurrection."--Gage.

Appendix C.

1. "Sappho flourished b. c. 600, and a little later; and so highly did
Plato value her intellectual, as well as her imaginative endowments,
that he assigned her the honors of sage as well as poet; and familiarly
entitled her the 'tenth muse'"--Buckle,

2. "Wilkinson says among _no_ ancient people had women such influence
and liberty as among the ancient Egyptians."--Buckle.

3. "The Americans have in the treatment of women fallen below, not only
their own democratic principles, but the practice of some parts of the
Old World."--Harriet Martineau.

4. "Mr. F. Newman denies that Christianity has improved the position of
women; and he observes that, 'with Paul, the _sole_ reason for marriage
is, that a man may, without sin, vent his sensual desires. He teaches
that, _but_ for this object, it would be better not to marry;' and he
takes no notice of the _social_ pleasures of marriage. Newman says: 'In
short, only in countries where Germanic sentiment has taken root do we
see marks of any elevation of the female sex superior to that of Pagan
antiquity.'"--Buckle.

5. "Female voices are never heard in the Russian churches; their
place is supplied by boys; women do not yet stand high enough in the
estimation of the churches.... to be permitted to sing the praises of
God in the presence of men."--Kohl.

6. "Christianity diminished the influence of women."--Neander, "Hist, of
the Church."

Appendix D.

Within the reign of the present sovereign Mrs. Gage tells us of a young
girl being ordered by the Petty Sessions Bench back to the "service" of
a landlord, from whom she had run away because such service meant the
sacrifice of her honor. She refused to go _and was put in jail_.

Appendix E.

1. "Women were taught by the Church and State alike, that the Feudal
Lord or Seigneur had a right to them, not only against themselves, but
as against any claim of husband or father. The law known as _Marchetta_,
or Marquette, compelled newly-married women to a most