The passional attraction between men and women has too often prevented a perception of the profound differences which make the members of each sex in many things strange to the other, and capable of sympathy only with their own.

It is in giving full play to the differences of sex rather than in seeking to obliterate them, as was apparently the effort of some reformers in your day, that the enjoyment of each by itself and the piquancy which each has for the other, are alike enhanced.

In your day there was no career for women except in an unnatural rivalry with men.

We have given them a world of their own, with its emulations, ambitions, and careers, and I assure you they are very happy in it.

It seems to us that women were more than any other class the victims of your civilization.