Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground,
consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex;
and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature,
one writer has declared that it is masculine for a
woman to be melancholy. She was created to be the
toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears,
whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.