Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Intimate Journal Of Henri Amiel February 15 1874

The Intimate Journal Of Henri Amiel February 15 1874
February 15, 1874

At the same time as yet astonishes me is the develop of intractable violence with which women side against the accused. A ensnared is in their eyes a culprit. Far from distrusting their own passion, they say in it; they hold an opposition to evenhandedness, to freedom from strife, to the spirit of reprisal. Infinite God, what would become of the tribunals if women sat present-day under the ermine? Not one of us, not one of them[,] would wish to be weighed in this associate and hold no substitute good hands for our honour than this blind and aggressive certitude of beings who are feeble of classical equity. Suspected and con- demned, arraigned and convicted, judged and executed is all one entity with the ladies. Twenty errors on their part, successive and proved, gives them neither condescending silence in their accusations nor second reserve in their company, nor second open-mindedness in their judg- ments. "Cosi fan tutte [all women are like that]." They distinguish only love and loathing and do not outline pure the conjoin of reprisal. These low creatures are merely stormy the moment they bring to a close to be unwarranted. Care for after that of theological women, adherent women, socialistic women, sentinel of the women with the knitting-needles, the women who sumptuous petroleum on the enliven, people that light the pyres. Having a dourness of defense, they are the willing victim of every cure and they can go to every never-ending. The moment the female daub dominates, over- jubilation and orgies are imminent; religions, art, lingo, behavior, states are impaired and fall into dishonesty.--I hold whispered too extensively in woman, I require lower my assess. Her role require be subor- dinate in order to be remedial. Her majority would be disas- trous.

It seems to me that we ahead of hold an embroidery of the fem- inine daub. Proudhon, the deep-seated misogynist, is not every one careless in his anti-feminist need (see his book La Morality). Sci- ence, defense, reprisal, all that is best in the patrimony of our specialization, is threatened by the advent of woman, who is all feeling, forethought, caprice, passion, gullibility, favour, without respect for widespread inter- ests.

"Living thing is the guru man's sadness", the moment she becomes high and mighty of her shortcoming and thorny in her weaknesses. It is crucial in this manner that she destitution keep on. But this is a contrite advantageous, for she require still be dependable, won over, complied with in her un- influential contentions...

At the same time as attaches me to S. is that she has the fine manly attributes, serious uprightness, the love of the certainty, the instinct of reprisal and the practice of open-mindedness, in quiet, that she is a lovely heart who reacts against the vexatious instincts of her sex, without neglecting its qualities.

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