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This, I think, is not such a horrid, not such a bad ideal after all,—this feminine ideal of the Semitic race. It is of course not so etherial as the Madonna and the Muses, the feminine ideal of the Indo—European race. However, one must, I think, admit,—the Madonna and the Muses are very well to hang up as pictures in one' s room, but if you put a broom into the hands of the Muses or send your Madonna into the kitchen, you will be sure to have your rooms in a mess and you will probably get in the morning no breakfast at all. Confucius says,“The ideal is not away from the actuality of human life. When men take something away from the actuality of human life as the ideal,—that is not the true ideal.

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