You are a more devoted mother than wife, as you have always dwelt upon a
lofty white peak of chaste womanhood, from which any descent into the
earthly realms of life and love was repugnant--so rarely "pure" and high
your nature.
Yet you have been a dutiful, loyal wife, and you are a devoted mother.
You despise all carnal-minded women, and cannot understand how women
fall--save that they lack good birth and breeding.
You will aid in a benefit for their reformation, but you do not want to
see them or to come near them. It makes you ill.
You are to be congratulated on never having added to the evil in the
world.
But permit me, madam, to tell you some truths about yourself--and the
large army of "respectable women" you represent.
However "well born" you may be, you are only half-born. The complete
human being has three sides to his nature--spiritual, mental, physical.
The men and women who are evenly developed on the three sides are few.
This is sometimes their fault--sometimes their misfortune.
We all pity the human being who is mentally dwarfed.
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