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_The "Epilogue of the Dreaming Women" is reprinted by
permission of the "English Review."_
PREFACE
There are two great traditions of womanhood. One presents the Madonna brooding over the mystery of
motherhood; the othermore confusedlytells of the acolytethe priestessthe clairvoyante of the unknown
gods. This latter exists complete in herselfa personality as definite and as significant as a symbol. She is
behind all the processes of artthough she rarely becomes a conscious artistexcept in delicate and
impassioned modes of living. Indeedmatters are cruelly complicated for her if the entanglements of destiny
drag her forward into the deliberate aesthetic effort. Strangewistfulbitter and s [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]tshe troubles and
quickens the soul of manas earthly or as heavenly lover redeeming him from the spiritual sloth which is more
to be dreaded than any kind of pain.
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The second tradition of womanhood does not perish; butin these present confusions of changewomen of the
more emotional and imaginative type are less potent than they have been and will be again. They appear
equally inimical and heretical to the opposing camps of hausfrau and of suffragist. Their intellectual forces
liberated and