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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for
speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and
for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary.
But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle,--and her
intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering,
arrangement, and decision. She sees the qualities of things, their
claims, and their places. Her great function is Praise; she enters
into no contest, but infallibly adjudges the crown of contest. By
her office, and place, she is protected from all danger and
temptation. The man, in his rough work in open world, must
encounter all peril and trial;--to him, therefore, must be the
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