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ties, so nearly resembled whiskey and

other spirituous liquors, that the man
ufacturers of these medicines were re-
quired to pay the tax usually imposed
on liquors.
Don't write that this is the first time
that women have ever had an opror-
tunity for the higher education. There
is not a single century since the
twelfth in which there have not been
women professors at the Italian uni
versities.
Don't insist that women have in our
times opportunities for education
never afforded them before. You are
forgetting about the women of the
Renaissance.
Don't assert that this is the first
time that men have ever admitted wo-
men had an intellect. Most Of the i'm.
aginative literature of the world was
written by women. They have always
been the readers, the love songs Of
China, the Odyssey" of Hober, and
not little of the rest of Greek liter
ature was evidently written for women
rather than for men.
Don't make yourself absurd by talk
ing of women practically being slaves
before our time. Shakespeare has not a
single hero in all his plays, and scarce
ly a play without a heroine. This
same thing is true of Aeschylus, Soph-
ocles and Euripides.
Don't forget that man has always
accorded woman higher place in
the ethical life than he allowed to
man.
Don't repeat that old fable about
the Catholic church forbidding Bible
reading before the reformation. Over
score of editions of the Scriptures
were published in German alone be.
fore Luthers time.
Don't talk about the Catholic church
keeping the Scriptures out of the
hands of the people. Professor Briggs
once exhibited to his classes at the
General Theological Seminary in New
York editions of the Bible in Italian,
that he purchased in Rome cheaper
than they could be bought anywhere
else in the world.
Don't display your ignorance by de-
claring that Catholics do not know the
Scriptures. Educated Catholics know
the Scriptures, as rule, much better
than Professionals.
Don't repeat just because so many
others have done it, the ridiculous as
sertion of the Protestant Missionary
societies that in bringing the Bible to
the people of Catholic countries they
put them in contact for the first time
with the word of God. This falsehood
is meant to draw dollars out of the
pockets of the foolish rich by appeal
ing to their prejudice.
Don't forget that it is the Catholic
church that is now defending the
Bible from the exaggerated "Highel
Criticism" so-called while numberless
Protestants are losing their faith il
Holy Writ and explaining away its
meaning.
Don't heap ridicule on the medieva
scholars for quoting Aristotle with re
spect. That was all very well in thu
eighteenth century when Aristotle hat
lost his prestige for the moment. W.
realize that the attitude of mind dem
onstrated eighteenth century ignor
ance, for we know that Aristotle pos
sessed probably the greatest mind tina
has ever existed.
| Don't declare that the medieva
scholars swore by Aristotle. Lessee
men did, but they did not. Albertul
Magnus said that Aristotle was not ,
God and must not be worshipped
Roger Bacon wanted the pope to for
bid the study of Aristotle because
smaller minds were so impressed b.
him as to follow even his errors.
Don't express, wonder that the med
ieval students did not look aroun,
them in the world and see things TO
themselves. Nature study is not new
Dante is full of it.
Don't blame the medieval reverence
for Galen. We are quite convince'
now that there have never been tw'
greater physicians than Hippocrate
and Galen, and the more we know O
Galen, the more we have learned t
respect him, and to feel that wheneve
he expresses an opinion, even thougl
we may seem to disagree with it, h
probably had a good reason for wha
he said.
Don't say that the medieval scholar
worshipped Caller blindly. The ignol
ant did, perhaps. In every generation
the ignorant must have some one t,
swear by. Vaudeville, in the thir
teenth century, said: God did not ex
haust all His creative power in making
Galen."
Don't be too hasty in making fun O
the medieval liking for intellectual
darkness. Muench, in "Zukunftspaeda
gogik," 1908, said of medieval univer