It is a hearty outbreak against that apparent necessity for elegance and sexual specialisation that undercuts so much feminine achievement, that reduces so much feminine art and writing to vapidity, and holds back women from the face of danger and brave and horrible deaths.

They undercut his figures even when it was a loss to do so, knowing that in the end they would ruin him and drive him out of their path forever!

They do not seek admission in some special way, nor do they wish to undercut men by accepting lower salaries.

"They undercut his prices so that he could not sell his books, then when his bills came due he could not pay them.

Nay, he enters deeply into what even scepticism has to say for itself; he puts himself into the infidel's state of mind, in which the world, as a great fact, seems to give the lie to all religions, converting them into phenomena which counterbalance and negative each other, and he goes down into that lowest abyss and bottom of things, at which the intellect undercuts spiritual truth altogether.