love becomes a barren waste without a single oasis.

Oh, if I could but call about me in one vast throng the girls of this
land, and all other lands, who have had the first thought of
carnality planted in their bosom by the scheming Priestcraft, I would
have a throng of tear-faced mortals that would rend the heart of
stone and stigmatize the cunning of Catholicism with a stigma blacker
than the lowering clouds of despair.

When you force childhood to believe in the infallibility of the
priestcraft you educate the mind of that child to implicitly believe
in the officials of the Catholic Church, and when you gain the
implicit confidence you have established a belief that cannot be
easily eradicated, as this belief has become a part of that child,
and as it grows older, this erroneous belief grows in proportion to
the body, and by the time this child has arrived at the age of
maturity, she is as densely ignorant of the cunning of this doctrine
as she was when she first learned to repeat the Catechism with a
childish lisp.

We desire to preface this chapter with common-sense arguments, so
that the reader may thoroughly understand how completely the female
element of the Catholic Church is under the control of the priesthood
of this institution.

Priests are, as a rule, men of more than average intellect, and, as
they have no other calling nor no other avocation in life than to
make good impressions upon their members, they of course become
cunning in their art, especially with the female members of their
congregations, and more especially with their young and handsome