They wish to cultivate her in general still more, and intend, as they say, to make the weaker sex by culture: as if history did not teach in the most emphatic manner that the cultivating of mankind and his weakening that is to say, the weakening, dissipating, and languishing of his have always kept pace with one another, and that the most powerful and influential women in the world (and lastly, the mother of Napoleon) had just to thank their force of will and not their schoolmasters for their power and ascendancy over men.