One realises, with horror, that the race of men is almost extinct in Europe. Only Christ-like heroes and woman-worshipping Don Juans, and rabid equality-mongrels. The old, hardy, indomitable male is gone.
D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. Originally published by T. Seltzer (1921). Sea and Sardinia, ch. 3, Doubleday Anchor (1954).