"Looking Forward." A treatise on the status of woman and the origin and growth of the family and the state. By Philip Rappaport, 234 pages, Charles H. Kerr & Company, Chicago.
The author traces the history of woman thru various barbarous lands and times, and gives to evolution the credit for all the benefits that the women of this time enjoy over what their sisters enjoyed in other times. He is evidently at outs with the Bible, for he claims that the privileges that women now enjoy are theirs in spite of what the apostles and church fathers taught. He thinks that the economic system advocated by Socialism is the one and only thing that will help women in particular and the world in general to a higher plane of civilization. It is very evident that his close study of the doctrine of Socialism has kept him from seeing that the Bible is not responsible for what many men called "church fathers" have taught in the name of the Bible. Despite all the hypocrisies and superstitions that have been practised and enforced in the name of the religion of Jesus Christ, yet has that religion gone right on with its uplifting power; and none have had greater benefits from it than the women who have been ground down by the slaveries practised by the men in so many countries at different periods of the world's history.