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Jephthah's Vow Considered.
that the sacrificial devotement cannot be maintained without a violation of the genius and construction of the Hebrew language , and this is the mam stay of our objections , though there are others very strong ; yet , where there is , to say the least , a strong doubt whether Jephthah did immolate his daughter , we think that those who hold that opinion , should have been influenced by more charity than they seem to have been , which would have led them to put a more favourable construction
on his conduct than they have ; they should have acted more in accordance with the spirit of our English law , which humanely directs that all doubts should be held as beneficial , and not prejudicial , to any one accused of crime or wrong .
INFLUENCE OF WOMAN . —{ Extract of a Lecture by the Rev . R Keynes on " The Beneficial Influence of the Female Sea ? on Science and Civilization : ' )— This he shewed to " be the case by a comparison of our own hi ghly-favoured land ivith those countries where woman is degraded to the mere automaton of the Harem , and where we invariably find men to be savage , ferocious , and semi-barbarous . He asked why it was that China , with its three hundred millions of inhabitants , had remained
quite stationary as to civilization for a period of more than two thousand years ? It was doubtless to be accounted for by the fact , that scarcel y more than one in ten of its vast population were females ( nine-tenths of the female infants being destroyed ) , and that their ivomen , with their little feet and empty heads , were uncultivated and uneducated . At the time when Rome was the mistress of the world , a few troops of naked savages possessed this now populous and land
happy , and a horrible and bloody superstition was all of religion which they possessed . Now , how changed was the scene!—how much was there of which a Briton must be justly proud , and for which he ought to be truly thankful , whether we looked to our populous cities , — our crowded marts—our flourishing manufactories-our noble philanthropic institutions—our commerce , which stretched from the Arctic to the Antarctic circle—our shipping , which ride in every part of the world colonial
—or our possessions , on which the sun never sets—whether we listened to the thunders of our navies , ivhich had scarcely ceased to reverberate along the waters of the Nile and the Mediterranean , or looked to the deathless monument of glory which our warriors had raised on the plains of Waterloo—on every side we saw evidences of the high rank which Britons had attained among the nations of the earth—and , under dod , he attributed much , very much of this , to the beneficial influence exerted British
by females . It was not so much the mental culture , and the intellectual refinement of the sex , as it was the high tone of moral leelmg , and the Christian elevation of soul , that pervaded his countrywomen , which had raised themselves and their country so high . Mr . K . adduced many instances , both from the sacred volume and from uninsured writers , proving the intrinsic worth and value of the sex—their affectionate disposition—theii fortitude and magnanimity Buthe
. , added , it was at home that woman shone the brightest ; it was in the social relations of life that she appeared in her time and her loveliest character . It was the numerous wives , and mothers , and daughters , and sisters , who so thickly studded our happy land , which gave to the moral atmosphere of Britain that soft luminous appearance , which , when seen in the heavens , we denominate the galaxy , or milky-way .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Jephthah's Vow Considered.
that the sacrificial devotement cannot be maintained without a violation of the genius and construction of the Hebrew language , and this is the mam stay of our objections , though there are others very strong ; yet , where there is , to say the least , a strong doubt whether Jephthah did immolate his daughter , we think that those who hold that opinion , should have been influenced by more charity than they seem to have been , which would have led them to put a more favourable construction
on his conduct than they have ; they should have acted more in accordance with the spirit of our English law , which humanely directs that all doubts should be held as beneficial , and not prejudicial , to any one accused of crime or wrong .
INFLUENCE OF WOMAN . —{ Extract of a Lecture by the Rev . R Keynes on " The Beneficial Influence of the Female Sea ? on Science and Civilization : ' )— This he shewed to " be the case by a comparison of our own hi ghly-favoured land ivith those countries where woman is degraded to the mere automaton of the Harem , and where we invariably find men to be savage , ferocious , and semi-barbarous . He asked why it was that China , with its three hundred millions of inhabitants , had remained
quite stationary as to civilization for a period of more than two thousand years ? It was doubtless to be accounted for by the fact , that scarcel y more than one in ten of its vast population were females ( nine-tenths of the female infants being destroyed ) , and that their ivomen , with their little feet and empty heads , were uncultivated and uneducated . At the time when Rome was the mistress of the world , a few troops of naked savages possessed this now populous and land
happy , and a horrible and bloody superstition was all of religion which they possessed . Now , how changed was the scene!—how much was there of which a Briton must be justly proud , and for which he ought to be truly thankful , whether we looked to our populous cities , — our crowded marts—our flourishing manufactories-our noble philanthropic institutions—our commerce , which stretched from the Arctic to the Antarctic circle—our shipping , which ride in every part of the world colonial
—or our possessions , on which the sun never sets—whether we listened to the thunders of our navies , ivhich had scarcely ceased to reverberate along the waters of the Nile and the Mediterranean , or looked to the deathless monument of glory which our warriors had raised on the plains of Waterloo—on every side we saw evidences of the high rank which Britons had attained among the nations of the earth—and , under dod , he attributed much , very much of this , to the beneficial influence exerted British
by females . It was not so much the mental culture , and the intellectual refinement of the sex , as it was the high tone of moral leelmg , and the Christian elevation of soul , that pervaded his countrywomen , which had raised themselves and their country so high . Mr . K . adduced many instances , both from the sacred volume and from uninsured writers , proving the intrinsic worth and value of the sex—their affectionate disposition—theii fortitude and magnanimity Buthe
. , added , it was at home that woman shone the brightest ; it was in the social relations of life that she appeared in her time and her loveliest character . It was the numerous wives , and mothers , and daughters , and sisters , who so thickly studded our happy land , which gave to the moral atmosphere of Britain that soft luminous appearance , which , when seen in the heavens , we denominate the galaxy , or milky-way .