and threats; for if, or when, they so rule, they are no longer women, but abortions. They are capable of the sweetest sensibility, the most profound emotion, the utmost humility, and the excess of enthusiasm. In their countenance are the signs of sanctity and inviolability, which every feeling man honours, and the effects of which are often miraculous. Therefore, by the irritability of their nerves, their incapacity for deep enquiry and firm decision, they may easily, from their extreme sensibility, become the most irreclaimable, the most rapturous, enthusiasts. Their love, strong and rooted as it is, is very changeable; their hatred almost incur able, and only to be effaced by continued and artful flattery. Men are most profound; women are more sublime. Men most embrace the whole; women remark individually, and take more delight in selecting the minutia which form the whole. Man hears the bursting thunder, views the destructive bolt with serene aspect, and stands erect amidst the fearful majesty of the streaming clouds. Woman trembles at the lightning, and the voice of distant thunder; and shrinks into herself, or sinks into the arms of man. Man receives a ray of light single, woman delights to view it through a prism, in all its dazzling colours? She contemplates the rainbow as the promise of peace; he extends his enquiring eye over the whole horizon. Woman laughs, man smiles; woman weeps, man remains silent. Woman is in anguish when man weeps, and in despair when man is in anguish; yet has she often more faith than man. Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous. A woman with a beard is not so disgusting as a woman who acts the free thinker; her sex is formed to piety and religion; to them Christ first appeared; but he was obliged to prevent them from too ardently, and too hastily, embracing him.-Touch me not-They are prompt to receive and seize novelty, and become its enthusiasts. The whole world is forgotten in the emotion caused by the presence and proximity of him they love. They sink into the most incurable melancholy, as they also rise to the most enraptured heights. The feelings of the man are more imagination; those of the female more heart. When communicative, they are more communicative than man; when secret, more secret. In general they are more patient, long suffering, credulous, benevolent, and modest. Woman is not a foundation on which to build. She is the gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; (1 Cor. iii. 12.) the materials for building on the male foundation. She is the leaven, or, more expressively, the oil to the vinegar of man; the second part of the book of man. Man singly, is but half man; at least but half human.-A king without a kingdom. Woman, who feels properly what she is, whether still or in motion, rests upon the man; nor is man what he may and ought to be but in conjunction with woman. ThereforeIt is not good that man should be alone, but that he should leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh." A WORD ON THE PHYSIOGNOMONICAL MAN is the most firm-woman the most flexible. Man is the straightest-woman the most bending. Man stands stedfast -woman gently trips. Man surveys and observes-woman glances and feels. Man is serious-woman is gay. Man is the tallest and broadest-woman less and taper. Man is rough and hard-woman smooth and soft. Man is brown-woman is fair. Man is wrinkly-woman less so. The hair of man is more strong and short →of woman more long and pliant. The eyebrows of man are compressed-of woman less frowning. Man has most convex lines-woman most concave. |