Women "have principle" in the sense in which that term is used by the
country people. They will keep you true to the order of things--to the
constitution of the universe. They will do this not so much by
preaching at you, as by the influence of their very personality.
The man who has gotten out of touch with womankind is not to be
feared. He is to be pitied rather than feared, for he is out of
harmony with the world--he is disarmed. No matter how large his mind
and great his courage, he is neutralized for all natural, properly
proportioned, and therefore enduring, effort.
I know a physician who, still young, has reached the head of his
profession in this country. Sundays and the evenings with his wife
and children are not enough for him; he takes Wednesday also.
Precisely this same thing is done by the young captain of finance and
affairs whom I described first in this paper as being a total
abstainer. This is not done for the rest it gives these men; or, if it
is done for that, it is not the greatest benefit they get out of it.
They come back to their work with clearer and stronger conceptions of
human character and of truth in the abstract and the concrete, with
which all men, no matter what their profession or business may be,
must deal.
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