Hints for Lovers by Arnold Haultain
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only transformed from an absolute into a constitutional monarch : she
acts then by and with the advice of her First Lord. This is the ideal State. * * * Woman's true function, as a citizen, in this world is: to spur men on to high and noble action. And this, quite unconsciously, she does. Woman's true function, as a woman, in the world is: to evoke man's most fervid emotions, and at the same time to keep them at their highest level. And this she also does--perhaps not quite so unconsciously. * * * They err who call women illogical. Feminine logic is inexorable. But it proceeds per saltum. It is man who has laboriously to reason step by step. * * * The most wayward woman craves control: To let a woman have her own way is interpreted by her as indifference. And The surest way to fail to please a woman is to let her do what she pleases. * * * Woman is born to acting as the sparks fly upward. And |
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