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exaggerated treachery, had murdered the sleeping fugitive who had taken
refuge under her roof,_"--Lecky, "European Morals," vol 1, p. 357.

Appendix L.

1. "Mr. F. Newman, who looks on toleration as the result of intellectual
progress, says: 'Nevertheless, not only does the Old Testament justify
bloody persecution, but the New teaches that God will visit men with
fiery vengeance _for holding an erroneous creed_."--Buckle.

2. "The first great consequence of the decline of priestly influence was
the rise of toleration.... I suspect that the _impolicy_ of persecution
was perceived before its wickedness. "--Ibid.

3. "While a multitude of scientific discoveries, critical and historical
researches, and educational reforms have brought thinking men face to
face with religious problems of extreme importance, _women have been
almost absolutely excluded from their influence_."--Lechy.

4. "The domestic unhappiness arising from difference of belief
was probably almost or altogether unknown in the world before the
introduction of Christianity.... _The deep, and widening chasm between
the religious opinions of most highly educated men, and of the immense
majority of women is painfully apparent_. Whenever any strong religious
fervor fell upon a husband or a wife, its first effect was to make a
happy union impossible."--Ibid.

5. "The combined influence of the Jewish writings [Old Testament] and
of that ascetic feeling which treated woman as the chief source of
temptation to man, caused her degradation.... In the writings of the
Fathers, woman was represented as the door of hell, as the mother of
all human ills. She should be ashamed at the very thought that she is
a woman. She should live in continual penance, _on account of the curse
she has brought into the world_. She should be ashamed of her dress,
_and especially ashamed of her beauty_."--Ibid.

Appendix M.

1. "The writers of the Middle Ages are full of accounts of nunneries
that were like brothels.... The inveterate prevalence of incest among
the clergy rendered it necessary again and again to issue the most
stringent enactments that priests should not be permitted to live with
their _mothers or sisters_.... An Italian bishop of the tenth century
enigmatically described the morals of his time, when he declared,
that if he were to enforce the canons against unchaste people
administering ecclesiastical rites, no one would be left in the Church
except th