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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 87

So St. Chrysostom

So St. Chrysostom.

He is another good man. "Woman," he says, "was put under the power of man, and man was pronounced lord over her; that she should obey man, that the head should not follow the feet. False priests do commonly deceive women because they aro easily persuaded to any opinion, especially if it be again given, and because they lack prudence and right reason to judge the things that be spoken; which should not be the nature of those that are appointed to govern others. For they should be constant, stable, prudent, and doing everything with discretion and reason; which virtues woman cannot have in equality with man."

I tell you women are moro prudent than men. I tell you as a rule women are more truthful than men, I tell you that women are more faithful than men-ten times as faithful as man. I never saw a man pursue his wife into the very ditch and dust of degradation, and take her in his arms. I never saw a man stand at the shore where she had been morally wrecked waiting for the waves to bring back even her corpse to his arms; but I have seen woman do it. I have seen woman with her white arms lift man from