Your Forces and How to Use Them (Volume 3) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1889. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... muscle would fail him. He did not know that when a greater closeness of sympathy and combination of interests is formed between man and wife, the greater will be his strength of both mind and muscle. He did not know that it was her strength, also, that did the work. He did know that if he took all her strength, and gave none in sympathy back, that the supply was going all to one side, and that in consequence, both in time would lose all strength. What is meant by "taking her strength?" This: that when a woman's thought is in any degree of sympathy directed on a man, he receives of that thought-current a literal strength for mind and body. Why has dancing more exhilaration when the sexes dance together, than when they attempt this exercise separately? Because the combination of the masculine and feminine thought-elements gives to each such exhilaration. Without nearness of the feminine thought-element, men wear out the sooner physically, as has been proven in the remote mining districts of the West, inhabited exclusively by men. This exclusive world of women is as unhealthy and unnatural as is the exclusive world of men. In the man's world, woman is an intruder. In the woman's world, man is an intruder. Wherever the masculine element throws out the feminine, there is coarseness. Wherever the feminine element throws out the masculine, there comes narrowness and an excess of prudishness, which may at last reach such an extreme as to see evil in everything masculine. This makes DEGREES DEGREESminds really impure. Where, in this way, the masculine mind discards and rejects any part of the feminine mind, there comes, as a result, a corresponding amount of mental and physical weakness. Where the feminine mind similarly throws out the masculine, and lives in its exclusive w...