Preparation for marriage.

  • Heape, Walter, 1855-1929.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Preparation for marriage. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    development of her mind her ideals have perhaps also grown out of all proportion. If so, one can hardly blame her; one’s ideals are infinitely rarely realised under any circum- stances, but it is good to begin life with them, for they help to shape it well. Of the chief reasons why young women to-day look askance at husbands, however, that selfishness which accompanies “ bright hard- ness ” is probably not the least potent. But I think a still more forcible reason is their increased ignorance of the forces which drive men, of men’s physiological needs and of their inherent difference from women. Woman has become less generously disposed towards the faults and failings, as she calls them, which are inherent in man. I believe such ignorance is fos- tered by the training woman now receives, since it stimulates the exer- cise of suppressed qualities in her