Oh, if I could save other women from that!"
Claudia hastily interposed to divert her. "That is a good idea, the
higher education of men," she said. "I don't know whether they have
abandoned hope, or whether they think themselves already perfect,
certain it is the idea of improving themselves does not seem to occur
to them often. And we want good men in society. If the clergy and
priests are good, it is only what is required of them, what everybody
expects, and, therefore, their goodness is accepted as a matter of
course, and is viewed as indifferently as other matters of course. One
good man in society has more effect as an example than ten priests."
"But you have not told us what you propose to do, Ideala?" I said.
"I hope it is nothing unwomanly," Claudia interposed, anxiously.
Ideala looked at her and laughed, and Claudia laughed too, the moment
after she had spoken. The fear of Ideala doing anything unwomanly was
absurd, even to herself.
"An unwomanly woman is such a dreadful creature," Claudia added,
apologetically.
"Yes," said Ideala, "but you should pity her.
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