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"was complete.

It seems to me not merely foolish but criminal to bring people up like that.

Let alone the suffering to them, it explains why women are what they are--the wonder is they're no worse.
I have taken it upon myself to enlighten her, and now, though still a good deal prejudiced and liable to exaggerate, she is more or less a reasonable human being.

Keeping them ignorant, of course, defeats its own object, and when they begin to understand they take it all much too seriously.