People were getting rich, and with great riches there always came pride and wickedness.

He continued in this strain for nearly an hour, mixing up transcendentalism, rationalism, unitarianism, and a number of other isms, so unartistically as to astonish and confound his audience, and give his hearers something to talk about for a week.
Then he suddenly broke away from his disputed points, as he called them, and took up the subject of woman's wrongs.

"My hearers," said he, pausing and pointing upward with the fore-finger of his right hand, "What would the world be without woman?
From the very beginning of the world she has been the victim of wrong, great wrong.

Man has sinned against her by making her his inferior.

God never intended that she should be the inferior of man.