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”For if the man is the head, the woman is the heart, and as he occupies the chief place in ruling, so she may and ought to claim for herself the chief place in love.”
I used to accept this but now I question it — a virtuous man may actually surpass his wife in love of the family, but not in emotion, as he will have right reason and right will coupled together, while the wife can only participate in the right reason through obedience, and her love may be more emotional than rational at first, until it is formed through obedience and her emotions are brought into subjection to her reason and his.
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