or more unhappy.
As nurses and educators of our first childhood, women are suited,
precisely in that they are themselves childish, simple, and
short-sighted, in a word, are their whole life - grown-up children - a
kind of middle step between the child and the man, who is the true human
being. Only look at a girl, how for days together she plays with a
child, dances and sings with it, and think what a man with the best
intentions could accomplish in her place. Nature has destined the girl
to produce what in a dramatic sense is called a startling effect,
inasmuch as it has furnished her for a few years with superabundant
beauty, fascination, and fullness, at the cost of her whole remaining
lifetime, in order that during these years she may be able to conquer
the imagination of a man to the extent that he shall be so far carried
away as to honourably undertake in some form or shape the care of her
for life; a step for which mere reasonable deliberation seems to give no
adequate security. Nature has accordingly armed the woman, like every
other creation of hers, with the weapons and instruments which she
requires for the assurance of her subsistence, and at the time she
requires it, a course in which she has proceeded with