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The English attitude of women toward men is somewhat that of comradeship, and once married the man's comfort is looked after with some care; the American attitude of women toward men, in the more luxurious circles, is often, I admit, that of a spoiled child toward a gift-bringing uncle, and she permits him to worship her along the lines of a restricted rubric; but in Germany the subordination, the unquestioning and unthinking adulation, the blind acceptance of inferiority have not only softened the men but robbed the women of even sufficient independence to make them the helpmates that they try to be.
As the seventh subject of the first group introduced the arts of home after those of the savage wanderer, this seventh of the second group introduces the arts of the missionary, or civilized and gift-bringing wanderer. The Conquest of the Sea. The helmsman, and two rowers, rowing as Venetians, face to bow. The Conquest of the Earth. Hercules victor over Antaus.
He haunted my desk with unseen gift-bringing the newest books, the correction of exercises, the concealment of bonbons, of which he was fond. One day he asked me whether, if I were his sister, I should always be content to stay with a brother such as he. I said I believed I should. He continued: "If I were to go beyond seas for two or three years, should you welcome me on my return?"
They apparently assumed that poets as a matter of course wrote what they did in order to please some patron a questionable enough assumption regarding any Roman poetry composed before the Silver Age. The second Eclogue is a very early study which, in the theme of the gift-bringing, seems to be reminiscent of Messalla's work.
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