CHAPTER III.
SAVOY.
The commonplace theory which the world takes for granted as to the relations of the sexes, makes the woman ever crave the power and guidance of her physically stronger mate.

Even if this be a true account of the normal state, there is at any rate a kind of temperament among the many types of men, in which it seems as if the elements of character remain mere futile and dispersive particles, until compelled into unity and organisation by the creative shock of feminine influence.

There are men, famous or obscure, whose lives might be divided into a number of epochs, each defined and presided over by the influence of a woman.

For the inconstant such a calendar contains many divisions, for the constant it is brief and simple; for both alike it marks the great decisive phases through which character has moved.
Rousseau's temperament was deeply marked by this special sort of susceptibility in one of its least agreeable forms.

His sentiment was neither robustly and courageously animal, nor was it an intellectual demand for the bright and vivacious sympathies in which women sometimes excel.