g-stone to the child. In the end woman agrees with
Nature. We may go farther, and say

Women are nearer the eternal laws than are men. Men govern themselves by
the laws they themselves make. Women are lawless. Laws are for the
temporal, the fleeting; for a given individual in a given society; for a
particular race in a particular clime. Such laws are obeyed by women
only under compulsion. They, more far-seeing than men, instinctively
peer far beyond the ephemeral rules manufactured by men, into the realm
of laws eternal and immutable; these she obeys implicitly,
unquestioningly--much to man's amazement--and, it may be, his
mortification; for he sees that she is freer than he. This is why,

For the man she truly loves a woman will sacrifice everything
--everything. The same generous sentiment cannot by any means be
attributed to man.

* * *

Both the wise man and the wise woman--but here I am reminded of the
recipe for hare soup.

* * *

Between the sexes there is in reality but one link--the link amatory.
And

So long as Nature maintains two sexes, so long will men and women hug,
yet chafe under, that slender but invisible bond.

Not even Cupid and Psyche avoided a misunderstanding--in spite of the
devotion of the other. And,

If men and women differ in matters amatory, it is because men and women
have trodden different evolutionary paths:

The man, given up to the chase (for pelts or pelf) and careful of his
status in the tribe, thinks only of himself and the present;

The woman, her sole care the nurture of her offspring, thinks only of her
progeny, and the future. But since

The family is the unit of the state, therefore

The state makes laws, not for love, but for the family.

Happy that family the parents of which are bound by cosmic not by
municipal affection. Nevertheless,

Say what one will, Love scoffs at laws; howsoever marriage and divorce
may be regulated by parliamentary statute.

Man, as a member of a political community, may make marriage laws to suit
that community--laws to suit that community--laws "de vinculo
matrimonii" and laws "de mensa et thoro", decrees "nisi prius" and
decrees absolute; but

Law can no more bind the affections than it can bind the sweet influences
of the Pleiades. And yet, at bottom,

Beneath all municipal and parochial regulations, a great and cosmic law
does govern the relations of the sexes; and

The lightest whim of the lightest lady has