There is sacrifice and worship.

And no saying is more common, no truth better known, than that the man who hopes to succeed in life must be able to please the women.

Every young man who goes into any kind of society knows this.

It is one of the first lessons that he has to learn.

Well, am I very wrong in saying that the attitude of men towards women in the West is much like the attitude of men towards gods?
But you may answer at once,--How comes it, if women are thus reverenced as you say, that men of the lower classes beat and ill-treat their wives in those countries?
I must reply, for the same reason that Italian and Spanish sailors will beat and abuse the images of the saints and virgins to whom they pray, when their prayer is not granted.