Just so, but then the Scribes and Pharisees did not bring him. It is so
easy to punish the woman, and yet it is not proved that she was worse
than her paramour. But is it not the way of the world to make the woman
bear all the shame and all the suffering? We say, "She is a fallen
woman;" and yet we speak of a man who breaks the seventh commandment as
one who is "sowing his wild oats!" Why is he not called a fallen man? If
a woman falls, we put her outside our sympathies and our regard, and we
may be right is so doing. But at the same time we don't put the man
outside. He can come into our drawing-rooms. He may dine at the same
table with our daughters. If we saw them speak to the woman, we should
cry out with loathing, "Come away from her!" but