Ecstasy master of circumstance. 
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of stays, and made to walk several hours a day for 
a number of months. 
2.  A very convenient doctrine :  all this — (This 
note appears unfinished.)  I wish one could teach it 
to the English wife, for ever on the groan as she is 
that she is neglected, and then crying out again 
when one gets her with child.  The solution of the 
sex-problem is given in the Arab proverb, “ Women 
for children, and boys for pleasure.”  I strongly ad-
vocate the putting of women in their proper 
sphere ;  they should breed, nurse, educate, and 
perform those physical tasks for which their coars-
er nervous system and lack of intelligence fit 
them.  But no woman is a fit companion for a 
man ;  she of necessity degrades him.  Luckily, in 
the case of the best men, she disgusts him. 
How many women have left any mark on history, 
save by the excess of their impudicities and whore-
doms ? 
We must exclude those born to queendom. 
I can think but of one, Jeanne d’Arc, an example 
of the opposite abnormality, frigidity.