Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.98

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on women can point to a whole army of kindred souls throughout the world. Cp. with this and the next chapter, for instance, Fr. S. Krauss, *Sitte u. Brauch d. Südslaven*, the section on “Das Weib; Rosegger, *Volksleben in Steiermark*¹⁰, p. 394 f.; Elsie Clews Parsons, *The Old-Fashioned Woman*, pp. 203 ff. The view of the Arabs strikes one as thoroughly Indian: Woman is the source of all evil on earth, and God only made this monster that the man should learn to turn from earthly things (*Anthropos*, iii, 65).