“Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.” —Pope. 7.—“_Her every wish made subject_ ...” For a somewhat modern exemplification may be taken the instance of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in Paris with her husband, in 1852. She writes of Georges Sand:—“She received us in a room with a bed in it, the only room she has to occupy, I suppose, during her short stay in Paris.... Ah, but I didn’t see her smoke; I was unfortunate. I could only go with Robert three times to her house, and once she was out. He was really very good and kind to let me go at all after he found the sort of society rampant around her. He didn’t like it extremely, but, being the prince of husbands, he was lenient to my desires, and yielded the point.”—(“Life of Robert Browning,” by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, 1891.) 8.—“... _her God_.” _Conf._ Milton (“Paradise Lost,” Book IV., 299):— “He for God only, she for God in him.” See Note XXXV., 5. Compare also the Code of Manu, v. 154, as quoted by Letourneau:—“Although the conduct of her husband may be blameworthy, and he may give himself up to other amours, and be devoid of good qualities, a virtuous woman ought constantly to revere him as a God.”—(“Evolution of Marriage,” Chap. XIII.) _Id._... Here may fittingly be appended some masculine concepts of feminine duty in other races. The STATUS OF WOMAN, according to the CHINESE Classics:— In a periodical published in Shanghai, Dr. Faber, a well-known scholar, writes (1891) a paper on the status of women in China. He refers especially to the theoretical position assigned to women by the Chinese Classics. These lay down the different dogmas on the subject: “1.—Women are as different in nature from man as earth is from heaven. “2.—Dualism, not only in body form, but in the very essence of nature, is indicated and proclaimed by Chinese moralists of all times and creed. The male belongs to _yang_, the female to _yin_. “3.—Death and all other evils have their origin in the _yin_, or female principle; life and prosperity come from its subjection to the _yang_ or male principle; and it is therefore regarded as a law of nature that women should be kept under the control of men, and not be allowed any will of their own. “4.—Women, indeed, are human beings, (!) but they are of a lower state than men, and can never attain to full equality with them. “5.—The aim of female education, therefore, is perfect submission, not cultivation and development of mind. “6.—Women cannot have any happiness of their own; they have to live and work for men.