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the worst efforts of bigotry and intolerance for the 

 debasement of men, we can detect in much that 

 Christianity has done the beneficent finger of evolu- 

 tion. In subsequent chapters it will be our duty to 

 show in what manner monogamy operates to the 

 advantage of the species. Meanwhile we have to 

 inquire into the working of certain independent 

 agencies which have co-operated with Christianity in 

 furthering the interests of the female sex, and in- 

 directly those of mankind. 



