Those women, who, thanks to their social condition, find themselves in a freer state, have, as a rule, a one-sided, superficial education, that, combined with inherited female characteristics, manifests itself with force. They generally have a taste for mere superficialities; they think only about gew-gaws and dress; and thus they seek their mission in the satisfaction of a spoiled taste, and the indulgence of passions that demand their pay with usury. In their children and the education of these they have hardly any interest: they give them too much trouble and annoyance, hence are left to the nurses and servants, and are later passed on to the boarding-schools. At any rate their principal task is to raise their daughters as show-dolls, and their sons as pupils for the _jeunesse dore_ (gilded youth) out of which dudedom recruits its ranks--that despicable class of men that may be fairly put upon a level with procurers. This _jeunesse dore_ furnishes the chief contingent to the seducers of the daughters of the working class. They look upon idleness and squandering as a profession. FOOTNOTES: [58] Mainlaender, "Philosophie der Erloesung," Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1886, E. Koenitzer. [59] D. A. Debay, "Hygiene et Physiologue du Marriage," Paris, 1884. Quoted in "Im Freien Reich" by Ioma v. Troll-Borostyani, Zurich, 1884. [60] "Das Geschlechtsleben des Weibes, in physiologischer, pathologischer und therapeutischer Hinsicht dargestellt." [61] "Die Prostitution vor dem Gesetz," by Veritas. Leipsic, 1893. [62] V. Oettingen, "Moralstatistik." Erlangen, 1882. [63] "Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie," Vol. I, Stuttgart, 1883. [64] Vol. II. Leipsic, 1887. [65] "The moods and feelings in and which husband and wife approach each other, exercise, without a doubt, a definite influence upon the result of the sexual act, and transmit certain characteristics to the fruit." Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, "The Moral Education of the Young In Relation to Sex." See also Goethe's "Elective Affinities," where he sketches clearly the influence exerted by the feelings of two beings who approach each other for intimate intercourse. [66] "Denkwuerdigkeiten," Vol. I, p. 239, Leipsic, F. A. Brockhaus. [67] "Mr. E., a manufacturer ... informed me that he employed females exclusively, at his power-looms ... gives a decided preference to married females, especially those who have families at home dependent on them for support; they are attentive, docile, more so than unmarried females, and are compelled to use their utmost exertions to procure the necessities of life. Thus are the virtues, the peculiar virtues of the female character to be perverted to her injury--thus all that is most dutiful and tender in her nature is made a means of her bondage and suffering." Speech of Lord Ashley, March 15, 1884, on the Ten Hour Factory Bill. Marx's "Capital." [68] "Die Frau auf dem Gebiete der Nationaloekonomie." [69] See "Fuerst Bismarck und seine Leute," Von Busch.