The Spectator, No. 433 (17 July 17 1712) [ Concepts ]
… Ranas, Et frontem nugis solvere disce meis. Mart. The Moral World, as consisting of Males and Females, is of a mixt Nature, and filled with several Customs, Fashions and Ceremonies, which would have no place in it, were there but One … two Sexes tends to the Improvement of each of them, we may observe that Men are apt to degenerate into rough and brutal Natures, who live as if there were no such things as Women in the World; as on the contrary, Women, who have an Indifference or Aversion for their Counter-parts in human Nature, are generally Sower and Unamiable, Sluttish and Censorious. I am led into this Train of Thoughts by a little …
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