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 viewless form;
Earth is but its birthplace—the cradle of its infancy—
Where it drops its cumbrous wrappings for the wings of immortality.
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.