Whilst he in turn was master to a slave;
Through every rank the sexual serfdom ran,
And woman’s life was bound in vassalage to man.
XXXV.
Then, fearing that the slave herself might guess
The knavery of her forced enchainedness,
A subtle fiction mannish brain designed
To dominate her conscience and her mind,—
Inhuman dogmas did his genius frame,
Investing them with sanctimonious name