CHAPTER X.THE COUNSEL OF WINTER--FORTUNE'S AMBASSADOR CALLS.
In the light of the world's attitude toward woman and her duties, the nature of Carrie's mental state deserves consideration.

Actions such as hers are measured by an arbitrary scale.

Society possesses a conventional standard whereby it judges all things.

All men should be good, all women virtuous.

Wherefore, villain, hast thou failed?
For all the liberal analysis of Spencer and our modern naturalistic philosophers, we have but an infantile perception of morals.