Next in order but far inferior in saving power are statute laws and social ethics.
All these influences are potent in that broad, middle ground which separates the best from the worst. They “pluck brands from the burning.”
By their means the less aberrant are brought into nearer conformity with Nature’s stern requirements.
But for the hopeless defectives,—the misfits in her tireless productiveness [{59}] —religion, laws, and society are alike weaker than woman’s tears.
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They themselves sharpen the scythe of the Grim Reaper who brings the only remedy. [{60}]
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