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Life moves in circles. Some are larger than the span between infancy1 and senility, but that is about the only difference we know of. It is a far cry from the primigenous mere2 female, or even the Sabines, to the women that compose the advance guard of their sex to-day, but when man wants to win and wear this highest product of civilization, he would better kidnap her, and pay her the compliment of arguing with her brain later. Her impulses are still primitive4, but they must be taken by assault. The more he reasons, the more vigorously will she throw up mental defences, and, what is worse, in the utmost good faith with herself.
This, of course, in regard to women that already know something of life, or that have an instinctive5 love of liberty and independence. The maternal6 girl, and she is legion, may safely be left in charge of the race, and wooed in the orthodox fashion favored of society. But the women that exert a powerful attraction for men, either exceptionally advanced themselves, or exceptionally weak in character while possessing every charm of mind, women that are approaching closer and closer to that exact balance of masculine and feminine attributes which, when attained7, will give them the one perfect happiness, setting them free, as it must, from the present curse of the race, the longing8 for completion, are already too close to independence to be won by simple methods. It is little, after all, that man can give them. They are conscious of too many resources both within themselves and in life; after a man’s novelty has worn off, they are more likely than not—certainly apt!—to find him their inferior in brain, and almost inevitably10 in character, full of the little weaknesses and dependencies of childhood. If they make these discoveries after marriage, the man has some small chance of keeping his
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infancy
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| n.婴儿期;幼年期;初期 | |
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spouse
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audacity
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brute
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sentimental
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adoration
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modesty
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philosophically
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gallant
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knight
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distress
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dreary
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verge
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dinginess
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lodge
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literally
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dungeon
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momentous
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susceptible
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underneath
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stolidity
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glamorous
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manly
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panorama
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kaleidoscopic
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oyster
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devoted
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curiously
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alluring
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distinguished
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specimen
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knightly
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visualizing
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| 肉眼观察 | |
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ego
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peculiar
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affected
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annihilated
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unwilling
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visualize
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foe
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gasping
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maturity
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faculty
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neurotic
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