Still, by stopping short upon the very frontier of a new epoch in society (the land of promise to the graphic historian), I have yet followed the natural break in history itself. I have further endeavoured to give to the first two volumes as much of the design of the entire work as will form something like a distinct whole; and I shall endeavour to preserve in the last two the same character of unity and independence. Having begun with the beginning, it is my hope and my intention to conclude with the conclusion. And, should that light be spared me, without which none work cheerily, and few (save the inspired) work at all, I shall only stop at that point which Time itself has but just touched—the age we live in! To that age and its glorious spirit of inquiry I appeal, in the full confidence that it will "hear me for my cause;" for, in spite of the consecrated axiom respecting the "wisdom of our ancestors," the true "age of chivalry," where woman is concerned, is that in which the highest development of science bears evidence of her na tural claims to all the social benefits and civil rights, which, in darker and more unlettered ages, have been assumed, under the supremacy of physical force, to have been the exclusive prerogative of her master. London, April 2, 1840. SYDNEY MORGAN. Oriental Antiquity, Traditional and Historical-Of India, CHAPTER V. The Women of the Hebrews- Under the Egyptian Captivity-At the Exodus-In the Desart of CHAPTER VII. Women of the Hebrews under the Philis- tines-The Mother of Samson-Naomi and Ruth-Under CHAPTER I. The Women of the Hebrews under the Mo- CHAPTER II. The Women of the Hebrews under the Monarchy - The Egyptian Princesses - The Women of CHAPTER III. The Women of the Hebrews on the separa- tion of Israel and Judah-Jezebel-Athaliah |