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88 that she loves some other man more than the one she marries, but in her eyes he may not be her equal, or may not be able to give her the position and influence desired, and as the strength, emotions and power of a true woman are still dormant in her undeveloped body, she is incapable of loving any one to any great degree of intensity, and therefore does not allow love to influence her choice. What pitiable objects such women are? They go through life cold, heartless, pitiless, unfeeling creatures. That divine desire of every true woman's soul for motherhood, for the prattling voices of their own lovely children, they never experience. They are not women—not men. The world is made darker, gloomier, and more severe because of their influence at times, but rarely, if ever, is it made better.

Marriage for position or money, or to satisfy other desires than love, is made possible simply and entirely by the lack of that virile power which accompanies superb