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The explanation of woman's submission in thought and action to what was practically a slave code a code peculiar to her sex and scorned and derided by men was the fact that the main hope of a comfortable life for every woman consisted in attracting the favorable attention of some man who could provide for her.
What unspeakable glory it would be, if they could recognise him, and realise that the derided mock king of the slums and back alleys was become a real King, with illustrious dukes and princes for his humble menials, and the English world at his feet!
Yes, and you've got just about as much show of gittin' her as I have of jumpin' over that tree!" derided Morgan. "No matter what I think of her, good or bad, she'd be safe with me," Joe told him, searching his face accusingly. "Yes, of course she would!" scoffed Morgan. "You're one of these saints that'll live all your life by a punkin and never poke it with your finger.
This scientific attitude towards X phenomena, that of refusing to examine them, and denying them without examination, was fixed by David Hume in his celebrated essay on 'Miracles. Hume derided the observation and study of what he called 'Miracles, in the field of experience, and he looked for an a priori argument which would for ever settle the question without examination of facts.
The Andover dames patterned after her, and spent many of the long hours, in as close following of honored formulas as the new conditions allowed, laying then the foundation for that reputation still held by Andover housewives, and derided by one of her best known daughters, as "the cup-cake tendencies of the town."
To his son Henry, the quality that distinguished his father from all the other figures in the family group, was that, in his opinion, Charles Francis Adams possessed the only perfectly balanced mind that ever existed in the name. For a hundred years, every newspaper scribbler had, with more or less obvious excuse, derided or abused the older Adamses for want of judgment.
Hence my uncle was turning his back on very respectable company when he derided Evolution, and would probably have recanted and apologized at once had anybody pointed out to him what a solecism he was committing. The metaphysical side of Evolution was thus no novelty when Darwin arrived.
'And, therefore, he proceeds to say, 'it was great injustice in Plato, though springing out of a just hatred of the rhetoricians of his time, to esteem of rhetoric but as a voluptuary art, resembling it to cookery that did mar wholesome meats, and help unwholesome, by variety of sauces to the pleasure of the taste. 'And therefore, as Plato said eloquently, "That virtue, if she could be seen, would move great love and affection, so, seeing that she cannot be showed to the sense by corporal shape, the next degree is to show her to the imagination in lively representation": for to show her to reason only, in subtilty of argument was a thing ever derided in Chrysippus and many of the Stoics who thought to thrust virtue upon men by sharp disputations and conclusions, which have no sympathy with the will of man.
This occult science of the words and actions of law was the inheritance of the pontiffs and patricians. The treachery of some plebeian officers at length revealed the profitable mystery: in a more enlightened age, the legal actions were derided and observed; and the same antiquity which sanctified the practice, obliterated the use and meaning of this primitive language.
A word further concerning the nasty but all-purifying Ganges water. When we went to Agra, by and by, we happened there just in time to be in at the birth of a marvel a memorable scientific discovery the discovery that in certain ways the foul and derided Ganges water is the most puissant purifier in the world!
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