degree of the power in question than circum-
stances have required from men." "Long
generations" of subjection are, strangely
enough, held to excuse the timorousness and
the shifts of women to-day. But the world,
unknowing, tampers with the courage of
its sons by such a slovenly indulgence. It
tampers with their intelligence by fostering
the ignorance of women.

And yet Shakespeare confessed the partici-
pation of man and woman in their common
heritage. It is Cassius who speaks:

"Have you not love enough to bear with me
When that rash humour which my mother gave me
Makes me forgetful?"

And Brutus who replies:

"Yes, Cassius, and from henceforth
When you are over-earnest with your Brutus
He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so."

Dryden confessed it also in his praises of
Anne Killigrew:

"If by traduction came thy mind,
Our wonder is the less to find
A soul so charming from a stock so good.
Thy father was transfused into thy blood."

The winning of Waterloo upon the Eton

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