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not knowing that they are only proving thus that they are slaves. So it is with husbands who are eternally finding fault with their wives.
Chastity is the first virtue in man or woman, and the man who, however he may have strayed away, cannot be brought to the right path by a gentle and loving and chaste wife, is indeed very rare. This world is not yet as bad as that. I have heard much about brutal husbands all over the world and about the impurity of men, but my experience shows that there are quite as many brutal and impure women as men. 'If the women of America were as good and pure as their own constant assertions would lead a foreigner to believe, I am perfectly satisfied that there would not be one impure man' in this country.. With whom could men then become impure ? What brutality is there which purity and chastity cannot conquer ? A good, chaste wife, who thinks of every other man except her own husband as her child and has the attitude of a mother towards all men, will grow so great in the power of her purity.
