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He became shy. I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady. For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.

Essentially, then, it was the fear of “eviration,” rather than any overt hostility to women, that excited Rousseauian passions.

I know that there are some persons who object to it upon moral grounds ; they say that it will continentalise England ; and introduce practices and opinions which I do not believe anything can introduce.