the roue; but I have small patience with those mawkish
purists who persist in measuring men and women by the
same standard of morals. We might as well apply the
same code to the fierce Malay who runs amuck and to
McAllister's fashionable pismires. We might as wisely bring
to the same judgment bar Bengal's royal beast, crazed with
lust for blood, and Jaques' wounded deer, weeping in the
purling brook. Each sex and genus must be considered by
itself, for each possesses its peculiar virtues and inherent
vices. In all nature God intended the male to seek, the
female to be sought. These he drives with passion's fiery
scourge, those he gently leads by maternal longings, and
thus is the Law of Life fulfilled,--the living tide runs ever on
from age to age, while divine Modesty preserves her name
and habitation in the earth. A man's crown of glory is his
courage, a woman's her chastity . While these remain the
incense rises ever from Earth's altar to Heaven's eternal
throne; but it matters not how pure the man if he be a
cringing coward, how brave the woman if she be a brazen
bawd. Lucrece as Caesar were infamous, and Caesar as
Lucrece were a howling farce.

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CHARITY.

St. Paul SAYS: "Though I speak with the tongues of
men and angels and have not charity, I am become as
sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And tho' I have the
gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could