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>And it was in this light that the ancients and people of the East regarded woman; they recognised her true position better than we, with our old French ideas of gallantry and absurd veneration, that highest product of Christian–Teutonic stupidity. These ideas have only served to make [women] arrogant and imperious, to such an extent as to remind one at times of the sacred monkeys of Benares, who, being conscious of their own holiness and inviolability, think they can do anything and everything they please.