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Wherever the spirit of industry
triumphs over the aristocratic spirit
woman aspires to the economic and legal independence of a clerk.
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‘Erica-the-Cleric’, stands inscribed over the portal of our modern society.
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There has been an almost masculine stupidity about this movement
of which real women, that is to say clever women, are heartily ashamed.
There has been a desire to make woman more cultivated
as if history had not declared that to cultivate anything
is to make it weaker.
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That in woman which inspires respect is her ‘nature’,
which is more ‘natural’ than that of man,
her beast-of-prey suppleness and inner savagery.
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Woman is being divested of her enchantment.
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Europe, O’ Europe…
No Goddess lies concealed within this crazy notion.
It is just an idea, and a thoroughly modern idea at that!
This is interesting, Stuart, especially this line: as if history had not declared that to cultivate anything is to make it weaker.
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