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to arms; they resort to tactics; they maneuver. And, Men and women approach each other vizored and in
armor. But it is often only to conceal
the craven heart that beats beneath the brazen cuirass. * * * Men judge of women, not so much by their
intrinsic worth, as by the impression women make upon them. And women know this, since All women are alive to the fact that the
impressing (1) of men is the important function of life. Accordingly, Great stress is, and is naturally, laid by women
upon dress and the subtleties of the toilette. For, In matters of the heart man is led by the heart
and not by the head. (2) And why not? Since It is generally a sweet-heart, not a hard head,
that a man wants. In short, Men are oftener vanquished by a look than by
logic; by a gracious smile than by good sense; by manner and even by dress
than by mental development or depth. This is to say, A man judges a woman by her appearance; A woman judges a woman by her motives. (And A woman judges of a woman’s motives by what she
knows of her own.)--So it comes about that, To a man, a woman’s heart is something
mysterious. But Women, who know their own hearts, have little
difficulty in reading others’. (1) It is
(perhaps) highly unfortunate that to this word is attached a two-fold
signification. (2) Though,
as Mr. Grant Allen has endeavored to show, this is a scientific a method as
any. * * * No units of measurement yet devised are adequate
for the computation of the power wielded by a beautiful woman. * * * That is a significant fact, and probably, could
we fathom all the profundities and unravel all the entanglements of the
relations between the sexes, as deep and as intricate as significant, that no
woman thinks a man can pay her a higher compliment than to wish to make her his
own. For though Woman thinks man her ultimate aim and desire,
Nature knows that man is but the stepping-stone to the child. In the end woman agrees with Nature. We may go farther, and say Women are nearer the eternal laws than are
men. Men govern themselves by
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