In all Christian ages which have been remarkable for their purity or progress, there has been absolute yielding of obedient devotion, by the lover, to his Mistress. I say obedient; - not merely enthusiastic and worshiping in imagination, but entirely subject receiving from the beloved Woman, however young, not only the encouragement, the praise, and the reward of all toil, but so far as any choice is open, or any question difficult of decision, the direction of all toil.
(Ruskin, 1865)
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