Estimation in which Women were held later--Cause and Effect--Mental Attainments despite of Oppression and Prohibition--Equal Men in Government, etc.--Frivolity, Literature, and Home Duties--Muscle not Mind--Marriage Ceremonies CHAPTER IV. THE SEXES EQUAL AT CREATION. Created Equal--Genesis iii, 16, considered--Monogamy--Lapse into Heathenism--Polygamy--The Patriarchs--The Law of Maid-servants and Bondwomen--Divorce; Christ recognized the Equality of Right therein--Eminent Women of Israel--Virtue and Vice of no Sex CHAPTER V. NEW TESTAMENT TEACHINGS. The New Testament Scriptures--How they Define the Position of Women CHAPTER VI. WOMAN BEFORE THE LAW. Equally amenable to Laws, Human and Divine--To rear and govern a Family rightly, requires Sound Judgment--Relative Mental Capacity of the Sexes not yet fairly tested--Comparisons--Christianity has done much, yet much remains to be done--Right in Each Other's Property--Men juster than the Laws--Query--Justice should be even-handed--A United Head--Women trained to perpetuate the Wrongs of their Sex CHAPTER VII. WOMAN AND LEGISLATION. Taxation without Representation--One-sided Legislation--Similar Objections urged against the Extensions of Franchise--Domestic Discord--Present Causes--Citizenship not Inconsistent with Home Duties--The State has been benefited at the Risk of her Life through all Ages--Assertions confuted--Modern Churches have departed from Primitive Usages--The Friends--Women as Philanthropists, Public Speakers, Artists, Physicians--Educated Women during the Late War--The Universities CHAPTER VIII. FAMOUS WOMEN OF ANTIQUITY. Dido, Queen of Carthage--Cleopatra--Lucretia--Zenobia--Hypatia--Other Famous Names CHAPTER IX. EMINENT WOMEN OF MODERN TIMES. The Countess of Montfort--Anna Askew--Esther Inglis--Lady Pakington--Mrs. Mary Washington--Mrs. Wesley--Mrs. Fletcher--Miss Crosby--Ann Hasseltine--Sarah H.B. Judson--The Misses Chandler--Other Eminent Characters of Modern Times INTRODUCTION.