This same chivalric gentleman also says:
9. "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the
man."--_1 Cor. xi._
22. "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the
Lord."
Is it possible for abject obedience to go beyond this?
23. "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head
of the Church, and he is the saviour of the body.
24. "Therefore, as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives
be to their own husbands in everything."--_Eph. v._
Even the Savior did not put man and woman upon an equality. A man could
divorce his wife, but the wife could not divorce her husband.
Every noble woman should hold such apostles and such ideas in contempt.
According to the Old Testament, woman had to ask pardon and had to be
purified from the crime of having born sons and daughters. To make love
and maternity crimes is infamous.
10. "When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord
thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them
captive,
11. "And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire
unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife,
12. "Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave
her head, and pare her nails."--_Deut. xxi_.
This is barbarism, no matter whether it came from heaven or from hell,
from a God or from a devil, from the golden streets of the New Jerusalem
or from the very Sodom of perdition. It is barbarism complete and utter.