" "Long generations" of subjection are, strangely
enough, held to excuse the timorousness and the shifts of women to-day.
But the world, unknowing, tampers with the courage of its sons by such a
slovenly indulgence. It tampers with their intelligence by fostering the
ignorance of women.
And yet Shakespeare confessed the participation of man and woman in their
common heritage. It is Cassius who speaks:
"Have you not love enough to bear with me
When that rash humour which my mother gave me
Makes me forgetful?"
And Brutus who replies:
"Yes, Cassius, and from henceforth
When you are over-earnest with your Brutus
He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so."
Dryden confessed it also in his praises of Anne Killigrew:
"If by traduction came thy mind,
Our wonder is the less to find
A soul so charming from a stock so good.
Thy father was transfused into thy blood."
The winning of Waterloo upon the Eton playgrounds is very well; but there
have been some other, and happily minor, fields that were not won--that
were more or less lost.
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