A Solemn Appeal - James White

and this he detests in himself, and therefore in her.
"Woman thus abused, also soon comes to feel
herself humbled, broken down, and sunk in the
scale of self-respect, by being put to so low a use.
And let the sensual husband remember that
knowing ones can read his treatment of her in this
respect by these and kindred signs--that is, in her
downcast, self-degraded looks and mien. But over
this saddening picture of wo, let us draw the
curtain of silence, while we shed tears of pity over
her sufferings. Woman fallen! Her loveliness
engulfed in the fiery sea of lust! Her angelic purity
and perfection converted into corruption! The
angel become the Animal--a mere sexual thing!
And all by violating a plain law of nature. Mete
punishment for so sensual a sin!
"Much has of late been said as regards the
elevation of woman on the one hand, and her
natural inferiority on the other. Without disturbing
this mooted question, further than to say that she is
equally perfect with man in her sphere, which is
equally elevated with his, that she is as perfect as
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