Young people, in public, of the two sexes, without shame appear in close intimacy--and will look upon statues and paintings of naked women and men, talking and criticizing, examining the works and looking at them in company, without confusion, or appearance of there being any indelicacy. As if, in fact, in the bosoms of the High-Caste there did not exist any of the passions of ordinary mortals! There are very numerous galleries of Art, where statues, paintings, pictures, models, and the like, are shown, which are always crowded by High-Caste women, children, and men. And shop-windows are made attractive by displays of pictures of nude, or half-nude, women and men, who act in the Plays, or who are notorious in Spectacles. This sort of indecency prevails; and strikes one, not used to it, with an unpleasant surprise. He knows not what to think of its significance--have all his ideas of decency been indecent? I am not able to say much of the interior life of the family. I was told that a happy family was rare--quite an exception. It is only _where the wife rules_ that any peace is secured. The wife is allowed to do, generally, in Society and at home, as she will. The husband goes off to _his_ pastimes and pursuits. Children whilst young are committed to the care of servants, and when older sent away to be educated and trained by hirelings. The daughters, when grown, often move the jealousy of the mother by attracting more attention from men--they are often _snubbed_ and made to dress unbecomingly, so that the mother may shine. Marriage among the High-Caste is an arrangement for an _establishment_; and to secure the succession of family name and title. To these ends great care is given to the money question. The man demands money for taking the wife. Domestic happiness is hardly thought of; unless, occasionally, by very young people, and they are laughed out of their ridiculous romance. In the marriage ceremony, the wife, in the presence of the Idols, and following the Invocations of the Priest, solemnly promises to obey the husband. But this is regarded as a mere form. Any husband who undertakes to enforce obedience, finds himself branded by _Society_, as a "brute!" Much of the infelicity in marriage rests upon this false basis. For, with the virile instinct, man naturally expects obedience; yet has, in his unmarried days, fallen in with the false notion of woman's superiority in delicacy and moral virtue. This peculiar affectation colours all Barbarian intercourse with the sex. It has its root in the _Superstition_, possibly; where an immaculate virgin gives birth to a _Son_ of god-_Jah_! who is the Christ-god. Thus, woman came to be mother of God!