The Shasta courier., 1865-10-28
Women In the Olden Times.

The Talmudists denied altogether that
Eve was created out of the rib of Adam, as.
signing to her an origin infinitely less honor.
able. IT we are to credit the Rabinicaf
WRITER'S the rib, after having been extracted
from the side of the living, was suffered to
remain unused for time. and excited the
cupidity OF a mischievous, malignant monkey
who watched his opportunity, snatched up
the prize and hurried off with it at express
speed. The angel whose busines it was to
nave watched the treasure, and who was un.
fortunately caught mapping. fastened at
terrible speed IN pursuit Of the audacious
thief, but in vain; the pilferer got clear off
with his booty, leaving, however. his nm
calmly caudal appendage in the hard rrasn
Of his pursuer it was out of his tail, and not
out of the Adam rib, that in the belief
of the Jewish doctors, Eve was manufacture.
ed.
Few would like to trace up their pedigree
to monkey still fewer to that ungainlv
member Of his person to which the Talmudist
referred the origin of Eve. The philosophers
of antiquity, one and all held women in
slender esteem; but it should be remembered
that those who saw in her only develop.
ment of fish, considered also that man, her
also an ichthyc origin, and that his real
progenitors were fnny denizens of the great
deep.
Heretics, in the early ages of the church,
were found, who dogmaticaly denied to
women the possession of the attributes of
humanity, and affirmed that in reality she
was nothing Better than brute beast
having. like some brute beasts, such as the
chimpanzee and the gorilla certain hideous
resemblance to mankind. with whom she had
really nothing else in common. Such pre-
valence did this monstrous doctrine acquire,
that in the fifth century, council Of the
church was summoned at Macon, in France,
formally to condemn it and anathematize
its supporters. But even in the council
were divines to be found who gave to the
abominable heresy sort of qualified ap.
proval, contending. upon what grounds it is
useless now to conjecture, that the salvation
which came by the cross was limited to man
alone, and for woman Christ did not die. It
was only after long and anxious debate, the
pestilent dogma received its fitting censure.
St. Augustine's notions on the matter
may be inferred from the singular opinion
which he maintains in his famous treaties
De Ciritate Del. where he contends that,
at the resurrection, womankind will be
wanting, but all who rise will rise as males.
Aristotle, whom those misogynists the
Jews used to claim as a Jew-an honor, we
will undertake to say, he never thought of,
and never would have desired-is still more
severe on the sex. Women in his belief.
was mistake altogether. She ought never
to have been permitted to disgrace the earth
with her presence. She was an incomplete.
unfinished production altogether-a bungle
piece of goods--a discredit to mankind
amongst whom she was cast. She was worse
than useless she was positively mischievous.
On certain days, if she was abroad, the
atmosphere became tainted on her appear.
ance, liquors became corrupted, the milk
cnrdled, the cream required the favor of
verdijuice, the melon withered, the mirror
was sulled in rejecting her visage, sterility
followed her footsteps, animals became mad
on her approach, and the sight of her called
forth a plentiful crop of snakes. Much Of
this rhodomantado certainly is due, not to
Aristotle himself but to his followers still
bis hostility to women is an ascertained fact,
and his disciples only improve on the doctrine
of their master.
Amauri, famous doctor of Paris, who
hourished at the beginning OF the twelfth
century, was of these deciples the most re.
nowned and drew down on himself the
censure of papal chair, then filed by
Innocent III. His own bishop, scandalized
his heterodoxy, convoked a synod and sum.
moned him to attend and. receive the SEN
tence it should pass on him; but Amauri
died before the synod had concluded its
deliberations. Resolved not wholly to be
cheated of their prey. the assembled fathers
decreed that the corpse of the scandalizer of
woman sh 1uld forthwith be exumed. and
publicly dragged, with every mark of indig-
nifty, through the principal streets of Paris
decree which was executed in its fnllness,
greatly, no doubt, to the satisfaction of the
fair Parisans, who must have felt their
wrongs revenged, and their rightful position
in the order of beings effectually vindicated
by the extremely decorous proceeding
Amauri's death, and his post mortem pun
Ishment, did not however, put an end to his
heresy. He left behind him numerous and
devoted believers in his doctrines, and many
of these by order of the Council of Paris,
were brought to the stake in 1910 and duly
roasted alive, that men should know that
the fair sex was not to be treated with i'm.
punity.