Bērna reliģisko piederību nosaka vecāki.

What would you think of a one-armed man who suddenly grabs a stranger and starts trying to rip off her clothes? She’s struggling to fend him off, frantically trying to protect herself from humiliating exposure, attempting to hold down her skirt with one hand, and clutching her neckline with the other while he’s doing his utmost to expose more of her flesh and underwear.

Doesn’t that same desperate battle take place whenever a woman with normal feelings is gawked at?

(..)

Jesus equated hate with murder. To hate is to consciously or unconsciously wish a person were dead. Likewise, to wish you could see more of a woman’s body or underwear than she wishes to reveal is as immoral as forcibly exposing her flesh while she screams in horror.

The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises about the trifling. Mr. Hume challenges anyone to cite a single example in which a Negro has shown talents, and asserts that among the hundreds of thousands of black who are transported elsewhere from their countries, although many of them have even been set free, still not a single one was ever found who presented anything great in art or science or any other praiseworthy quality, even though among the whites some continually rise aloft from the lowest rabble, and through superior gifts earn respect in the world. So fundamental is the difference between these two races of man, and it appears to be as great in regard to mental capacities as in color. The religion of fetishes so widespread among them is perhaps a sort of idolatry that sinks as deeply into the trifling as appears to be possible to human nature.

(..)

In the lands of the black, what better can one expect than what is found prevailing, namely the feminine sex in the deepest slavery? A despairing man is always a strict master over anyone weaker, just as with us that man is always a tyrant in the kitchen who outside his own house hardly dares to look anyone in the face. Of course, Father Labat reports that a Negro carpenter, whome he reproached for haughty treatment toward his wives, answered: "You whites are indeed fools, for first you make great concessions to your wives, and afterward you complain when they drive you mad." And it might be that there were something in this which perhaps deserved to be considered; but in short, this fellow was quite black from head to foot, a clear proof that what he said was stupid.

That the question is not of any minor importance must be at once admitted, when it is seen how very extensive a portion of the reading of the poor is supplied by the "Sorrowful Lamentations" and "Last Dying Speech, Confession, and Execution" of criminals. (..)

The procedure on the occasion of a "good" murder, or of a murder expected to "turn out well," is systematic. First appears a quartersheet (a hand-bill, 9½ in. by 7½ in.) containing the earliest report of the matter. Next come half-sheets (twice the size) of later particulars, or discoveries, or -- if the supposed murderer be in custody -- of further examinations. (..) Then are produced the whole, or broad-sheets (twice the size of the half-sheets), and, lastly, but only on great occasions, the double broad- sheet. (..)

[This particular] sheet bears the title of "The Sorrowful Lamentation and Last Farewell of J. B. Rush, who is ordered for Execution on Saturday next, at Norwich Castle." There are three illustrations. The largest represents Rush, cloaked and masked, "shooting Mr. Jermy, Sen." Another is of "Rush shooting Mrs. Jermy." A prostrate body is at her feet, and the lady herself is depicted as having a very small waist and great amplitude of gown-skirts. The third is a portrait of Rush, -- a correct copy, I was assured, and have no reason to question the assurance, -- from one in the Norwich Mercury. The account of the trial and biography of Rush, his conduct in prison, &c., is a concise and clear enough condensation from the newspapers. Indeed, Rush's Sorrowful Lamentation is the best, in all respects, of any execution broad-sheet I have seen; even the "copy of verses" which, according to the established custom, the criminal composes in the condemned cell -- his being unable, in some instances, to read or write being no obstacle to the composition -- seems, in a literary point of view, of a superior strain to the run of such things. The matters of fact, however, are introduced in the same peculiar manner. The worst part is the morbid sympathy and intended apology for the criminal.

"Jebkurš organisms būs nepilnīgs, ja tam iztrūks kāds loceklis. Pat domātāji ir pievērsušies šai tēmai ar mērķi izspriest, kura ķermeņa daļa tad ir svarīgākā, bet patiesībā, mēs nespējam pilnvērtīgi dzīvot, ja traucēta ir jebkuras vismazākās ķermeņa daļas funkcija."

"Rokas ir smadzeņu turpinājums ārējā vidē. Informācija no apkārtējās vides ienāk ar redzi, tausti, dzirdi un garšu, bet tiek realizēta ar rokām. Vairums cilvēka domu tiek realizētas ar rokas kustību. (..) Tauste ir īpašība, kura raksturīga tikai rokai. Neredzīgiem cilvēkiem rokas ne tikai realizē domas, bet ir arī cilvēka redzes orgāns.

Ar ko tad roka atšķiras no, piemēram, kājas? Ar to, ka kājai nav jāveic tūkstošiem delikātu un precīzu kustību. Šī iemesla dēļ, vidēja garuma rēta pēdā radīs daudzkārt mazāku traucējumu nekā rokā. Līdzvērtīgs lūzums jebkurā kājas pirkstā atstās daudz mazāku un īsāku darba spēju zudumu nekā rokā. Nepavelti, īkšķis plaukstā tiek vērtēts, kā ½ no plaukstas funkcijas."

A leading Egyptian scholar [Abdul Mouti Bayoumi] has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty.