“‘Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
“‘Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
“‘Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.’
“Is not this Tolstoy and his followers scattered over the whole world?!”
“In every age there have been many women ‘drowning in sin and led on by various lusts’: the ebb and flow of this sin in woman’s heart characterized whole epochs of particular human defection but at no time of the seeming triumph of sin have there been women ‘constantly studying’—this sign represents entirely a universal inheritance and is an exclusive characteristic of our epoch.
“Who is ignorant of the so-called ‘woman question,’ the emancipation of woman, that has already succeeded in breaking up so many families and which threatens an even greater disruption in the future?!...
“For the sake of some phantom the bride and mother abandons her true mission. Is not this the greatest and most unfortunate world revolution!”