CHAPTER XIV.
"Yes, much worse than the animal is man when he does not live as a man.
Thus was I.The horrible part is that I believed, inasmuch as I did not allow myself to be seduced by other women that I was leading an honest family life, that I was a very mortal being, and that if we had quarrels, the fault was in my wife, and in her character.
"But it is evident that the fault was not in her.

She was like everybody else, like the majority.

She was brought up according to the principles exacted by the situation of our society,--that is, as all the young girls of our wealthy classes, without exception, are brought up, and as they cannot fail to be brought up.

How many times we hear or read of reflections upon the abnormal condition of women, and upon what they ought to be.

But these are only vain words.