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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