19th Century Steinbeck Family Papers

What has given you the advantage over these poor degraded creatures! Of one blood all the nations of the earth are made, says the holy writ, & so on that account you have no advantage over them. By the Talmud it is enjoined upon the Jew to pray every morning "I thank the o God, that thou has not created me a women. By the Jewish Rabbies a women is very little more thought of than by the Mohameden, who asserts, that women have no souls. & if we go farther, what are women in China & other heathen countrys, are thy not looked upon as inferior beings, made to serve man & be the slave of his passions instead of his companion