The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Lemuel Kelley Washburn was an American free-thinker writer. [citation needed]. He was the compiler of a Cosmian hymn book – a collection of original and selected hymns (1888) announced as "perfectly free from all sectarianism.

" He publiLemuel K. Washburnd various atheist articles including The miracles of Jesus: and other essays (1917). [citation needed]. Lemuel Kelley Washburn was an American free-thinker writer.