You have preferred toil to taking favours from inferiors, and you have kept yourself clean in thought, word, and deed, and now you have the reward of such virtues—a good home, a husband, and children.
You are a more devoted mother than wife, as you have always dwelt upon a lofty white peak of chaste womanhood, from which any descent into the earthly realms of life and love was repugnant—so rarely "pure" and high your nature.
Yet you have been a dutiful, loyal wife, and you are a devoted mother.
You despise all carnal-minded women, and cannot understand how women fall—save that they lack good birth and breeding.
You will aid in a benefit for their reformation, but you do not want to see them or to come near them. It makes you ill.
You are to be congratulated on never having added to the evil in the world.
But permit me, madam, to tell you some truths about yourself—and the large army of "respectable women" you represent.
However "well born" you may be, you are only half-born. The complete human being has three sides to his nature—spiritual, mental, physical.
The men and women who are evenly developed on the three sides are few. This is sometimes their fault—sometimes their misfortune.
We all pity the human being who is mentally dwarfed. We are sorry for the one whose spiritual nature is undeveloped.