102/112 The current should run the other way. The nice, calm, cold thought, which, in women, shapes itself so rapidly that they hardly know it as thought, should always travel to the lips VIA the heart. It does so in those women whom all love and admire.... The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women; white roses please less than red."-- THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE, by Oliver Wendell Holmes.] [Footnote 206: 'The War and General Culture,' 1871.] [Footnote 207: "Depend upon it, men set more value on the cultivated minds than on the accomplishments of women, which they are rarely able to appreciate. |