Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 1‘woman,’ is that she seems more afflicted, more vulnerable,
more necessitous of love, and more condemned to disillu-
sionment than any other creature. Fear and sympathy it is
with these feelings that man has hitherto stood in the pres-
ence of woman, always with one foot already in tragedy,
which rends while it delights—What? And all that is now to
be at an end? And the DISENCHANTMENT of woman is
in progress? The tediousness of woman is slowly evolving?
Oh Europe! Europe! We know the horned animal which
was always most attractive to thee, from which danger is
ever again threatening thee! Thy old fable might once more
become ‘history’—an immense stupidity might once again
overmaster thee and carry thee away! And no God con-
cealed beneath it—no! only an ‘idea,’ a ‘modern idea’!