FOOTNOTES:
[142] See Man’s Descent from the Gods, chapter VIII.
[143] Book IX, verses 15, 16, 17.
[144] Op. cit. p. 135. “Mais si le mensonge est un vice très répandu dans toute l’humanité, c’est surtout chez les femmes qu’il atteint son maximum d’intensité. Demontrer que le mensonge est habituel, physiologique chez la femme, serait inutile: cela est consacré par la croyance populaire.”
[145] “There are three things that cannot be trusted: a king, a horse, and a woman; the king tyrannizes, a horse escapes, a woman is perfidious.”
[146] See Life of John Stuart Mill, p. 162.
[147] See The Subjection of Women, chap. I, section 7.
[148] The observation occurs in Congreve’s Mourning Bride, at the end of the 3rd Act, and is put in the mouth of Queen Zara. The precise words are:—
“Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.”