For nothing is so hard to her sex as a long steady struggle. In matters
physical, this is the thing the muscles of the fair cannot stand; in
matters intellectual and moral, the long strain it is that beats them
dead.
Do not look for a Bacona, a Newtona, a Handella, a Victoria Huga.
Some American ladies tell us education has stopped the growth of these.
No! mesdames. These are not in nature.
They can bubble letters in ten minutes that you could no more deliver
to order in ten days than a river can play like a fountain. They can
sparkle gems of stories: they can flash little diamonds of poems. The
entire sex has never produced one opera nor one epic that mankind could
tolerate: and why? these come by long, high-strung labor. But, weak as
they are in the long run of everything but the affections (and there
giants), they are all overpowering while their gallop lasts. Fragilla
shall dance any two of you flat on the floor before four o'clock, and
then dance on till the peep of day.
Only you trundle off to your business as usual, and could dance again
the next night, and so on through countless ages.
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