165. A wife's connection with her husband's rational wisdom is an inward one. This is because rational wisdom belongs only to men's intellect, and it climbs into a light that women are not in.
This is the reason why women do not speak in the terms of rational wisdom but hold their peace and just pay attention in the company of men when things like that are being discussed. Still, it is obvious that wives inwardly participate in these things, because they do pay attention and inwardly recognize and agree with things they hear and have heard from their husbands.
Wives' connection with their husbands' moral wisdom, however, is an outward one. This is because women share most of the virtues of moral wisdom, and the virtues come from the will of a man's intellect, with which a wife's will unites and makes a marriage.
I said that the wife's connection with these virtues is from the outside, because a wife knows more about them in a man than the man knows about them in himself.
