The Spectator, No. 433 (17 July 17 1712) [ Concepts ]
… their Motions, a Softness in their Voices, and a Delicacy in their Complections. As this mutual Regard between the two Sexes tends to the Improvement of each of them, we may observe that Men are apt to degenerate into rough and brutal … a perpetual League, Offensive and Defensive, so that if any Foreign Potentate offered to attack either of them, both the Sexes fell upon him at once, and quickly brought him to Reason. It was remarkable that for many Ages this Agreement …
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