My appetite at breakfast was not affected by my ignorance of the facts,
motives, events and conclusions. I think that to understand everything
is not good for the intellect. A well-stocked intelligence weakens the
impulse to action; an overstocked one leads gently to idiocy. But Mrs.
Fyne's individualist woman-doctrine, naively unscrupulous, flitted
through my mind. The salad of unprincipled notions she put into these
girl-friends' heads! Good innocent creature, worthy wife, excellent
mother (of the strict governess type), she was as guileless of
consequences as any determinist philosopher ever was.
As to honour--you know--it's a very fine medieval inheritance which women
never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. Since it may be laid as a general
principle that women always get what they want we must suppose they
didn't want it. In addition they are devoid of decency. I mean
masculine decency. Cautiousness too is foreign to them--the heavy
reasonable cautiousness which is our glory. And if they had it they
would make of it a thing of passion, so that its own mother--I mean the
mother of cautiousness--wouldn't recognize it.
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