[17] “We find in some instances this independence of the maiden in regard to disposing of her hand, or selecting a husband as a memento of the time of the Matriarchate.... The most remarkable instance of the self-disposition of woman we find among the ancient Arabs and the Hindoos; among the latter the virgin was permitted to select her own husband if her father did not give her in marriage within three years after her maturity.”
[18] Account of the Religion, Manners, etc., of the People of Malabar, etc., translated by Mr. Phillips, 1718.
[19] Among the illustrative types of interior realities and the elementary geometric forms, point, direct line and deflected line, the last of which is a true arc produces the circle when carried to its ultimate, this circle representing the triune order of movement; the point in the line, the line in the curve, and the curve in the circle—The Path.
[20] The phallus and lingum (or lingum and yoni), the point within the circle or diameter within the circle.—Volney’s Ruins.
[21] Chips from a German Work-Shop.—Max Muller.
[22] All mythology has pertinently been characterized as ill-remembered history.
[23] In the Rig-Veda, a work not committed to writing until after that movement of the Aryans, which resulted in the establishment of Persia and India ... there is nothing more striking than the status of woman at that early age. Then the departed mothers were served as faithfully by the younger members of the family as departed fathers. The mother quite as often, if not more frequently than the father conducted the services of the dead ancestry, which took place three times a day, often consisting of improvised poetry.—Elizabeth Peabody on the Aryans.
[24] There are but few of the United States in which the authority of the father to bind out a living child or to will away an unborn one, is not recognized as valid without the mother’s consent.
[25] Ward, the American who rendered such service to the Chinese Emperor, has been deified. The Emperor, in a recent edict, has placed him among the major gods of China, commanding shrines to be built and worship to be paid to the memory of this American. The people are worshiping him along with the most ancient and powerful deities of their religion as a great deliverer from war and famine—as a powerful god in the form of man. In every household, school and temple, his name will be thus commemorated.—Newspaper Report.
[26] Diodorus Siculus.