Note 4 — Chapter LVI · (43) OBJECTIONS TO THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN (continued)

As regards the arts, here we have the great defect of a reasonable government as well as the sole reasonable eulogy of monarchy à la Louis XIV. Look at the literary sterility of America. Not a single romance like those of Robert Burns or the Spaniards of the thirteenth century. See the admirable romances of the modern Greeks, those of the Spaniards and Danes of the thirteenth century, and still better, the Arabic poetry of the seventh century.