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Charles Kingsley’s 1853 historical novel Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face

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Love, faith, betrayal, religious conflict, power, identity and fictionalized fifth-century Alexandria.

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They love us for their own sakes, and we love them for love’s sake.

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“They love us for their own sakes, and we love them for love’s sake.”

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Pelagia voices a painful asymmetry: what feels like self-giving love to one person may be experienced as self-interest or possession from the other side.

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Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face, Chapter XXIV, “Lost Lambs,” Project Gutenberg #6308. Pelagia tells Philammon that men love women for their own sakes while women love “for love’s sake” during a distressed reflection on betrayal, dependence and the absent Amal. It is fictional dialogue in Kingsley’s historical novel, not a universal claim about men and women.

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