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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER VI
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The sensational immensity touched sublime, short of that spirit of Justice required for the true sublime.

And void of Justice; what a sunless place is any realm! Infants, the male and the female alike, first begin to know they feel when it is refused them.

When they know they feel, they have begun to reflect.

The void of Justice is a godless region.

Women, to whom the solitary thought has come as a blown candle, illumining the fringes of their storm, ask themselves whether they are God's creatures or man's.
The question deals a sword-stroke of division between them and their human masters.


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