Note 72 — Chapter Six

“The reformation altered, but did not better the condition of woman. Socially it rescued her from the priest to make her the chattel of the husband, and doctrinally it expunged her altogether. Martin Luther declared that the two sacred books, which especially point to woman as the agent of man’s final redemption—the books of Esther and Revelations—that in ‘so far as I esteem them, it would be no loss if they were thrown into the river’.”