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men, does not go beyond the confines of their own 
particular pursuits, but with women embraces the whole 
sex, since they have only one kind of business, Even 
when they meet in the streets women 
look at one another like Guelphs and 
Ghibellines; and it is a patent fact that 
when two of them make first acquaintance with each 
other, they behave with more constraint and dissimu- 
lation than two men would show in a like case; and. 
hence it is that an exchange of compliments between 
two women is a much more ridiculous proceeding than 
between two men. Further, while a man will, as a gen- 
eral rule, always preserve a certain amount of considera- 
tion and humanity in speaking to others, even to those 
who are in a very inferior position, it is intolerable to 
see how proudly and disdainfully a fine lady will gen- 
erally behave toward one who is in a lower social rank 
(1 do not mean a woman who is in her service) when- 
ever she speaks to her. The reason of this may be 
that with women differences of rank are much more pre- 
carious than with us, because, while a hundred consid- 
erations carry weight in our case, in theirs there is only 
one—namely, with which man they have found favour, 
as also that they stand in much nearer relations with 
one another than men do, in consequence of the one- 
sided nature of their calling. This makes them endeav- 
our to lay stress upon differences of rank. 
“Tt is only the man whose intellect is clouded by 
his impulses that could give the name of ¢he fair sex 
to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, 
broad-hipped, and short-legged race, for 
the whole beauty of the sex is bound up 
with the sex-impulse. Instead of calling them beautiful, 
there would be more warrant for describing women as 
the unzsthetic sex. Neither for music, nor for poetry, 
Trade jealousy 
among women. 
The unesthetic 
sex. 
