On the contrary, it is brought out in the boldest relief, nay, it is brought into such prominent importance that all else disappears, or, at most, serves only as its accompaniment.

The days are now past when to say that a woman was charming, they called her GRATEFUL (WDZIECZNA); the very word charm being derived from WDZIEKI: GRATITUDE.
Woman no longer appears as a protegee, but as a queen; she no longer forms only the better part of life, she now entirely fills it.

Man is still ardent, proud, and presumptuous, but he yields himself up to a delirium of pleasure.

This very pleasure is, however, always stamped with melancholy.

Both the music of the national airs, and the words, which are almost always joined with them, express mingled emotions of pain and joy.