"...Women lived in a different sphere than that of males. While men struggled in an often brutal world, women guarded home and hearth. They were superior to men in religious and moral sensibility; indeed, it was because of these fine faculties that men had to shelter them from a public life that was hardening, at best, and often corrupting. ... Woman's 'chastity is her tower of strength, her modesty and gentleness are her charm, and her ability to meet the high claims of her family and dependents the noblest power she can exhibit in the world.' The reward due women for accepting their divinely decreed private, submissive role in the world was the sacred right to be treated with deference."