Almost every woman's happiness depends upon what she does with her
heart--unless indeed she elects to go through life homeless, childless,
and unenspoused; for
Though it is the wife that makes the home, it is the man who must provide
for it. And since
Man, by nature, is probably nomadic and polygamic; not his to debate
whether to give rein to emotion. Woman, by nature, is in far different
case:
For the sake of her child, woman must bind the nomad to herself.
Accordingly,
It is woman who is the true agglutinator and civilizer of society.
Therefore, it comes about that
To order wisely her emotions is the inherited instinct of woman.
Wherefore,
Woman is the conserver of the nation--and this in more senses than one.
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