[[11]] See St. Thom. Aq., Summa, Pars iii. Qu. lxx. art. 6 ad 3.
[[12]] 1 Pet. iii. 7.
[[13]] It is noticeable that St. Paul does not (according to the Revised Version which represents the original) exactly enjoin obedience upon wives (as upon children and slaves) but subjection: cf. Col. iii. 18; 1 Cor. xiv. 34; 1 Tim. ii. 11, 12; 1 Pet. iii. 1. If however in the use of the 'obey' in the vow of the wife our marriage service goes an almost imperceptible stage beyond St. Paul, its general tone preserves St. Paul's balance admirably. The husband 'worships' the wife and endows her with all his worldly goods. The only other ecclesiastical formula of ours in which the word worship is used of a purely human relation, is the peer's oath of allegiance to the sovereign at the coronation, 'I do become your liegeman of life and limb and of earthly worship: and faith and troth I will bear unto you to live and to die against all manner of folks.'
[[14]] How many husbands are capable of 'teaching their wives at home' about religion? see 1 Cor. xiv. 35.
[[15]] See however below, p. [225].
[[16]] 1 Tim. ii. 12; 1 Cor. xiv. 34, 35.
[[17]] 1 Tim. ii. 8, 9.
[[18]] 1 Tim. ii. 11, 12; cf. 1 Pet. iii. 4.
[[19]] All this has been admirably stated by George Romanes, whom no one could accuse of misogyny, in his essay on 'the mental differences between men and women.' See Essays (Longmans, 1897), pp. 113 ff. And the statements of the text are supported by Mr. Havelock Ellis' Man and Woman (Contemp. Science Series). Mr. Ellis is sometimes less decisive than Mr. Romanes. But see capp. xiii, xiv.
[[20]] Tennyson's Princess; cp. his Memoir by Hallam Tennyson, (Macmillan, 1897), i. 249.