husbands shall love their wives; wives shall love
their husbands and their children with all their hearts and as
themselves"--how much better it would have been for this world.

Long before Moses was born the Egyptians taught one God; but
afterwards, I believe, in their weakness, they degenerated into a
belief in the Trinity. They taught the divine origin of the soul, and
taught judgment after death. They taught as a reward for belief in
their doctrine eternal joy, and as a punishment for non-belief eternal
pain. Egypt, as a matter of fact, was far better governed than
Palestine. The laws of Egypt were better than the laws of God. In
Egypt woman was equal with man. Long before Moses was born there were
queens upon the Egyptian throne. Long before Moses was born they had a
written code of laws, and their laws were administered by courts and
judges. They had rules of evidence. They understood the philosophy of
damages. Long before Moses was born they had asylums for the insane
and hospitals for the sick. Long before God appeared on Sinai there
were schools in Egypt, and the highest office next to the throne was
opened to the successful scholar. The Egyptian married but one wife.
His wife was called the lady of the house. Women were not secluded;
and, above all and over all, the people of Egypt were not divided into
castes, and were infinitely better governed than God ever thought of.
I am speaking of the God of this bible. If Moses had remembered more
of what he saw in Egypt his government would have been far better than
it was. Long before these commandments were given, Zoroaster taught the
Hindoos that there was one infinite and supreme God. They had a code
of laws, and their laws were administered by judges in their courts.
By those laws, at the death of a father, the unmarried daughter
received twice as much of his property as his son. Compare those laws
with the laws of Moses.

So, too, the Romans had their code of laws. The Romans were the
greatest lawyers the world produced. The Romans had a code of civil
laws, and that code today is the foundation of all law in the civilized
world. The Romans built temples to Truth, to Faith, to Valor, to
Concord, to Modesty, to Charity and to Chastity. And so with the
Grecians. And yet you will find Christian ministers today contending
that all ideas of law, of justice and of right came from Sinai, from
the ten commandments, from the Mosaic laws. No lawyer who