If One Shed Tears, They

The Study Of History Is Useful To The Historian By Teaching Him His Ignorance Of Women.

The Woman Had Once Been Supreme; In France She Still Seemed Potent, Not Merely As A Sentiment But As A Force; Why Was She Unknownin America? For Evidently America Was Ashamed Of Her, And She Was Ashamed Of Herself, Otherwise They Would Not Have Strewn Fig-leaves So Profusely All Over Her. When She Was A True Force, She Was Ignorant Of Fig-leaves, But The Monthly-magazine-made American Female Had Not A Feature That Would Have Been Recognized By Adam. The Trait Was Notorious, And Often Humorous, But Anyone Brought Up Among Puritans Knew That Sex Was Sin. In Any Previous Age, Sex Was Strength.

The New American, Like The New European, Was The Servant Of The Powerhouse, As The European Of The Twelfth Century Was The Servant Of The Church.

Average Human Nature Is Very Coarse, And Its Ideals Must Necessarily Be Average. The World Never Loved Perfect Poise. What The World Does Love Is Commonly Absence Of Poise, For It Has To Be Amused.

The Scientific Mind Is Atrophied, And Suffers Under Inherited Cerebral Weakness, When It Comes In Contact With The Eternal Woman--astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, And The Last And Greatest Deity Of All, The Virgin.