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Stories would also circulate that, at seventeen, she was impregnated by the son of a wealthy landowner who, having no intention of marrying her, lured her to a lonely spot and beat her so severely that she miscarried. According to this account, her assailant died soon afterward of an intestinal ailment whose symptoms were suspiciously like those of arsenic poisoning.[22]
Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.”
Woman has many traits in common with a child. Like it, she is vindictive and jealous, only in ordinary cases these defects are naturally neutralized by piety, by maternity, by less ardor in the passions, by weakness, and by undeveloped intelligence. But if there is diseased excitement of the psychic centers which intensifies the bad qualities and seeks a vent in evil, if pity and maternity are absent, if strong passions are also present, the desires derived from an intense eroticism, a sufficiently developed muscular force and a superior intelligence for doing evil and carrying it out are
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“the possibilities of the human heart seem infinite in evil as in good.”[9]
