Note 12 — Chapter VII · FALLACIES IN POPULAR ARGUMENTS
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The question arises: Why has Christianity stood in the way of woman’s cause? The answer is simple enough: Christianity, in adopting the Old Testament, adopted with it the Hebrew conception of woman. Her inferiority to man was established by her origin from his rib and the leading part she took in his fall. The Vicar of Crantock tabulates12 the reasons why a Christian woman should cover her head in church, as follows:—