A Series of Appeals, Or, Lectures Addressed Not Behind a Curtain to One Unfortunate Man, But to All Men and Their Families

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ..." like himself did better." And while he simply gives permission to the young women to marry, but no necessity is laid upon them, it is evident that no guilt is incurred by remaining single. Therefore no good reason can be adduced, why they should not be equally respected with the married, when equally worthy. Yes, both are alike, the erring daughters of Eve, and should be, but are not, judged by precisely the same standard. Because, forsooth, the former have never been caught in Hymen's noose, but are enjoying entire liberty, calling no man lord save Him who is the rightful Lord of every man and woman, are they to be despised? May we not confidently ask: Where are there to be found the noble traits of moral courage, self-dependence, and liberality of feeling, if not among those who have been accustomed to form their own plans, exercise their own 'judgments, and consult their own convenience? It is not to be supposed that those who seldom venture abroad without an arm of flesh upon which to lean, and who have another head besides their own to dictate for them, should find it so necessary to cultivate these desirable characteristics. As to the charge to which we have alluded, that as singWN women advance they become fretful and irritable, we think it is attributed to them as a peculiarity, by those who are destitute of candor: for it is obvious that the termagant will be the termagant still, though she be married. So thought the renowned philosopher of Greece, when he took to himself that contentious woman, Xantippe; for it is affirmed of him, that a continual testing of his selfcontrol was the assigned motive which induced him to place such a thorn at his side. Nor was Socrates disappointed, as he was not only a witness, as some of us have been, b...

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