The following excerpt is from Henry T. Finck’s book Romantic Love & Personal Beauty: Development, Causal Relations, Historic & National Peculiarities (1887).  Finck tells how English colonialism would eventually be responsible for implanting romantic love throughout the world, a project that would be completed via “the Anglisation of the planet.” Notably, it was American culture that took this impulse and developed it to such an extreme that it resulted, says the author,  in women becoming spoiled, selfish, rude and ungrateful — what we would today refer to as gynocentric.