"The truth is, Son," I myself heard him say to Kari, "that we men who
seem to rule the world do not rule it at all, because always women rule
us. This they do through our passions which the gods planted in us for
their own ends, also because they are more single in their minds. The
man thinks of many things, the woman only thinks of what she desires.
Therefore the man whom Nature already has bemused, only brings a little
piece of his mind to fight against her whole mind, and so is conquered;
he who was made for one thing only, to be the mate of the woman that she
may mother more men in order to serve the wills of other women who yet
seem to be those men's slaves."
"So I have learned, Father," answered the grave Kari, "and for this
reason having suffered in the past, I am determined to have as little to
do with women as is possible for one in my place. During my travels in
other lands, as in this country, I have seen men great and noble brought
to nothingness and ruin by their love for women; down into the dirt,
indeed, when their hands were full of the world's wealth and glory.
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