The Destruction Of India's Village

The Generous Wish To Share With All What Is Precious, To Spread Broadcast Priceless Truths, To Shut Out None From The Illumination Of True Knowledge, Has Resulted In A Zeal Without Discretion That Has Vulgarised Christianity, And Has Presented Its Teachings In A Form That Often Repels The Heart And Alienates The Intellect.

We Were An Ill-matched Pair, My Husband And I, From The Very Outset; He, With Very High Ideas Of A Husband's Authority And A Wife's Submission, Holding Strongly To The 'master-in-my-own-house Theory,' Thinking Much Of The Details Of Home Arrangements, Precise, Methodical, Easily Angered And With Difficulty Appeased.

Beauty Is No Dead Thing. It Is The Manifestation Of God In Nature. There Is Not One Object In Nature Untouched By Man That Is Not Beautiful, For God's Manifestation Is Beauty. It Shines Through All His Works, And Not Only In Those That May Give Pleasure To Man.

For Centuries The Leaders Of Christian Thought Spoke Of Women As A Necessary Evil, And The Greatest Saints Of The Church Are Those Who Despise Women The Most.

It Is Impossible For Anyone Who Studies The Life And Character Of The Great Prophet Of Arabia, Who Knows How He Taught And How He Lived, To Feel Anything But Reverence For That Mighty Prophet, O­ne Of The Great Messengers Of The Supreme. And Although In What I Put To You I Shall Say Many Things Which May Be Familiar To Many, Yet I Myself Feel Whenever I Re-read Them, A New Way Of Admiration, A New Sense Of Reverence For That Mighty Arabian Teacher.