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SCHILLER'S whole comprehensive poem Würde der Frauen, with its effects of antithesis and contrast, fails, in my opinion, to express what is truly to be praised in women as well as do these few words of Jouy: Sans les femmes, le commencement de notre vie serait privé de secours, le milieu de plaisirs, et la fin de consolation. Byron says the same thing with more pathos in Sardanapolis.

>The very first
>Of human life must spring from woman's breast,
>Your first small words are taught you from her lips,
>Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs
>Too often breathed out in a woman's hearing,
When men have shrunk from the ignoble care
Of watching the last hour of him who led them.
>Both indicate the correct viewpoint for estimating the value of women.