use man is too blind to see. That is to
say,

Since man in past ages has never allowed woman either freedom of action
or frankness of speech, it is not to be expected of her that she should
be all at once an adept in their use.--To her credit be it said that,

Generally a woman deceives only n order to arouse or to retain the
admiration of man. For example,

Many a woman has surreptitiously made love to the man--and few are the
men who have detected it.

* * *

Why this woman fascinates all who come within the sphere of their
influence, and that women, does not, no earthly sage will ever know. As
well ask what makes one man a Napoleon, another a poltroon. So, too,

It is impossible for a woman to say 'I will be loved,' as it is for a man
to say 'I will be obeyed.'--Perhaps

Love and Power are divine miracles.

* * *

(At the risk of treading on delicate ground, ground off which I shall be
hooted by the modern woman, I venture to say that)

The idea that a woman is the property of the man of her choice, rail as
it as the woman may, has not yet been ousted from the feminine mind--and
heart. Indeed,

So firmly implanted in the feminine breast is the idea of the ownership
of her by the man, that it is to the man who assumes and exercises
ownership that she clings. This is why

A woman easily changes her allegiance; since,

Allegiance, to a woman, means loyalty to the man who assumes and
exercises ownership over her:

Let a man who a fractional part of a second evince the shadow of a doubt
of his proprietorship--at once he undermines a woman's allegiance.
Consequently,

It is folly for men to express amazement at the ease with which a woman
will transfer herself and her affections.

A woman will transfer herself bodily over and over again, but only
because the previous owner lightly esteemed, or weakly maintained, his
ownership. As a matter of fact

In pristine days woman was, naturally and necessarily, the property, the
chattel, of the man: marriage was not then a matrimonial syndicate of
two: marriage meant that a woman sought a provider, a supporter, a
defender; the man a mate for his delight, his comfort, and his solace, a
keeper op is cave or hut, a mother and nurse for his heirs. And
provision, support, and defense, being, in pristine days, matters of
strength, prowess, or cunning, naturally and necessarily pristine man 65
gained him and kept him a mate by strength, prowess, or cunning;