The Spectator, No. 433 (17 July 17 1712) [ Concepts ]
… Man would not only be unhappy, but a rude unfinished Creature, were he conversant with none but those of his own Make. Women, on the other side, are apt to form themselves in every thing with regard to that other half of reasonable … 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, …
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