Destructive Functions

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“[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)