Friends in Council a Series of Readings And Discourse Thereon First Series
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Of course you put on the proper official look of astonishment ; and I will duly report it. But I was going to say that Chivalry, which has doubtless done a great deal of good, has also done a great deal of harm. Women may talk the greatest unreason out of doors, and nobody kindly informs them that it is unreason. They do not talk much before clever men, and when they do, their words are humoured and dandled as children's sayings are. Now, I should fancy mind I do not want either of you to say t...hat my fancy is otherwise than quite unrea- sonable I should fancy that when women have to hear reason at home it must sound odd to them. The truth is, you know, we cannot pet anything much without doing it mischief. You cannot pet the intellect, any more than io8 FRIENDS IN COUNCIL. the will, without injuring it. Well then, again, if you put people upon a pedestal and do a great deal of worship around them, I cannot think but the will in such cases must become rather corrupted, and that lessons of obedi- ence must fall rather harshly Dunsford.
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