Essays in buff.

Date:
1903
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Credit: Essays in buff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    young man’s life, not the highest but the first thing, and that on which the rest must depend. And pursuing the same train of thought she realised for the first time that of the physical life so lived, love, marriage, and parentage formed the normal and necessary outcome. And then she began to contrast the new point of view thus gained with that to which she was better accustomed, that in which marriage was indeed regarded as the end for which a woman was born and brought up, and without which she was a failure, an “ old maid,” but in which nevertheless marriage itself was regarded chiefly as an opportunity by which a certain social position, with the means of maintaining it, was to be acquired, or might, on the other hand, be lost. The bride’s parents might look forward to the prospects of