A Woman’s Answer

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 27, 1855

A Woman’s Answer

A WOMAN'S ANSWER.—A writer, illustrating the fact that some errors are lifted into importance by efforts to refute them, when they need only to be treated with wholesome doses of contempt and ridicule, observes that "all the blows inflicted by the herculean club of certain eminent logicians, are not half so effectual as the box on the ear of a celebrated atheist by the hand of beauty." After having in vain preached to a circle of ladies, he attempted to revenge himself, by saying, "Pardon my error, ladies, I did not imagine that in a house where wit vies with grace, I alone should have the honor of not believing in a God."

"You are not alone, sir," answered the mistress of the mansion, "my horses, my dog, my cat, share this honor with you; only these poor brutes have the good sense not to boast of it."