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Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.