THE PATH OF EVOLUTION 



all it touches. Neither woman nor man is without 

 faults, in each sex peculiar to its own. We all bear 

 around us more or less of the crysalis state of life 

 from which we have in part emerged. The wisest 

 and the best of us know it, and strive that in and 

 from our lives there may be evolved higher and 

 better ones, bearing less and less of the lower forms 

 from which we have come. To value and to praise 

 the beauty that graces the female nature, in its frame, 

 in its moral and in its mental attributes, is the duty 

 as well as the happiness of man. It is only the 

 morbid and diseased diathesis that finds fault with 

 the qualities varied from those of man that are 

 given to her sex for the duties required, and which 

 are so varied because they must be different from 

 those of men. 



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