yet
stronger - one strong enough to compel him. What a marvelous power this
would have to be! However, necessity teaches even the gods to surpass
themselves in inventiveness. They sought and they found. That power was
woman, the marvel of creation, even in the eyes of the gods a greater
marvel than man - a discovery which the gods in their naivete could not
help but applaud themselves for. What more can be said in her praise
than that she was able to accomplish what even the gods did not believe
themselves able to do; and what more can be said in her praise than that
she did accomplish it! But how marvelous a creation must be hers to have
accomplished it.
It was a ruse of the gods. Cunningly the enchantress was fashioned, for
no sooner had she bewitched man than she changed and caught him in all
the circumstantialities of existence. It was that the gods had desired.
But what, pray, can be more delicious, or more entrancing and
bewitching, than what the gods themselves contrived, when battling for
their supremacy, as the only means of luring man? And most assuredly it
is so, for woman is the only, and the most seductive, power in heaven
and on earth. When compared with her, in this sense, man will indeed be
found to be exceedingly imperfect.
And the strategem of the gods was crowned with success, but not always.
There have existed at all times some men - a few - who have detected the
deception. They perceive well enough woman's loveliness - mo
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