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| 44 | 37 | And how pathetic and impoverished would be a puritanical and dictatorial View more quotes about culture">culture, should any exist, which would permit them no place, which would deny them their most profound fulfillments. |
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| 44 | 34 | Surely the female slave is one of the loveliest and most valuable ingredients in a high culture. |
| 44 | 35 | Their presence, briefly and brightly tunicked, adds delight and charm to the markets, parks, and streets of a city, even to the remoter byways of rural areas. |
| 44 | 36 | The world is a thousand times richer and deeper for their existence. |
| 44 | 37 | And how pathetic and impoverished would be a puritanical and dictatorial culture, should any exist, which would permit them no place, which would deny them their most profound fulfillments. |
| 44 | 38 | I recalled Cecily, from when she had been fresh from Earth. |
| 44 | 39 | How she had striven and struggled against the insistent whispers of her heart, as she had, even on Earth, for years, trying to deny her deepest needs. |
| 44 | 40 | Yet, in a way, even on Earth, how clearly she had understood such things, even then, that she was, wanted to be, and should be a man's property, the abject, yielding, humbled slave of a powerful male, and yet, obedient to her background, education, training, and conditioning, how desperately she had struggled against such insights and truths, how frantically she had fought against them. |