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its beneficence to the human race is beyond all 

 human calculation. It helped to elevate and spirit- 

 ualize woman and lift her offspring and the genera- 

 tions of men to a higher spiritual plane. 



Romantic love between the sexes was never known, 

 so history teaches us, until the worship of the Virgin 

 Mary became universal throughout Christendom. 

 No such sentiment existed in Greece or Rome or 

 any pagan country, and none exists now in any 

 pagan or Mohammedan land. There women are 

 still treated as chattels and denied a soul. We 

 should remember that for man all religions were 

 instituted, all books written, all science formulated, 

 all literature ennobled, all progress inspired, and 

 all art made beautiful. 



Human reason, the perfection of the universe and 

 the words of revelation all teach 



Man's soul is part of Deity, and as immortal as its Creative God. 



Death is but a shadow across its path of destiny. 

 To the soul there is no grave; the tomb cannot grasp its view- 

 less form; 



Earth is but its birthplace the cradle of its infancy 

 Where it drops its cumbrous wrappings for the wings of immor- 

 tality. 

 Time, the vestibule of eternity, is where it points its course 



and takes its leap 

 Into the vast unknown toward the Infinite and Eternal, and 



sweeps 



Out upon its endless progression in knowledge and perfection 

 through immensity of worlds. 



