Scholars usually are glad to allow themselves to be kept in immaturity by their wives with regard to domestic arrangements. A scholar, buried in his books, answered the screams of a servant that there was a fire in one of the rooms: "You know, things of that sort are my wife's affair."
[Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, Louden, tr., Cambridge UP (New York: 2006) p. 104. Kant -- notably a bachelor -- is very critical of any self-imposition of immaturity.]
