Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, Childhood in the Moslem world

(New York ; Chicago :  Fleming H. Revell Co.,  [c1915])

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"Verily, a lie is justifiable in three cases: to women, in war,
and to patch up a quarrel between friends."—^Mohammed.

" The moral sense, in its objective form, is still very incomplete
in little children, even between the ages of two and four. They
have, however, a very advanced idea of what is allowed and
what forbidden, of what they must or may, and what they must
not do, as regards their physical and moral habits. Moral law
is for them embodied in their parents, in the mother especially,
even during their absence."-—Beknard Perez in " The First Three
Years of Childhood."

"Man is the absolute master and woman the slave. She is
the object of his sensual pleasures, a toy, as it were, with which
he plays, whenever and however he pleases. Knowledge is his,
ignorance is hers. The firmament and the light are his, darkness
and the dungeon are hers. His is to command, hers is to
blindly obey. His is everything that is, and she is an insignificant
part of that everything."—^Kasim Bey Amin of Cairo, in his
book "The New Woman."
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