His isolation, his narrow sphere, his simple life, and his religion even, which, while some of its maxims and tenets are admirable, still is lacking in the knowledge of the true God and in lofty ideals, have had a marked effect upon his thoughts and habits and pursuits.

His great teacher, Confucius, who flourished five centuries before the Christian era and who spoke some sublime truths, was nevertheless ignorant of a Revelation from heaven and inferior in his grasp of religious truth to such sages of Greece as Socrates and Plato.

In his system also woman is practically a slave.

She is simply the minister of man, and therefore unable to rear up children, sons who would reflect the greatness of soul of a noble motherhood.

It has often been remarked that great men have had great mothers.