Women of Antiquity--Their Condition in Heathen and Mohammedan
Countries--Marriage, Divorce, etc.


CHAPTER III.

LATER ESTIMATE OF WOMAN.

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