I am comparing the ostensible and notorious facts concerning the outward conquest of Christianity with those of other religions.

To _account_ for the early growth of any religion, Christian, Mussulman, or Mormonite, is always difficult.
III.

The moral advantages which we owe to Christianity have been exaggerated by the same party spirit, as if there were in them anything miraculous.
1.

We are told that Christianity is the decisive influence which has raised _womankind_: this does not appear to be true.

The old Roman matron was, relatively to her husband,[12] morally as high as in modern Italy: nor is there any ground for supposing that modern women have advantage over the ancient in Spain and Portugal, where Germanic have been counteracted by Moorish influences.