With exception of recent times, you see all civilisations and cultures throughout history limit the rights of women and relegating them to the bottom of society. Were they all wrong? Clearly they must have seen something in female nature/capacity, and made a judgement accordingly.
In any case, the current state of affairs have served only to make women more arrogant and overbearing, who in the consciousness of their sanctity and inviolable position, think they can do exactly as they please. Woman, rightly called by the ancients, sexus sequior (inferior sex), is by no means fit to be the object of our honor and veneration, or to hold her head higher than man and be on equal terms with him.
In the Politics Aristotle explains the great disadvantage which accrued to the Spartans from the fact that they conceded too much to their women, by giving them the right of inheritance and dower, and a great amount of independence; and he shows how much this contributed to Sparta's fall. May it not be the case in France that the influence of women, which went on increasing steadily from the time of Louis XIII., was to blame for that gradual corruption of the Court and the Government, which brought about the Revolution of 1789, of which all subsequent disturbances have been the fruit?
In any case, the current state of affairs have served only to make women more arrogant and overbearing, who in the consciousness of their sanctity and inviolable position, think they can do exactly as they please. Woman, rightly called by the ancients, sexus sequior (inferior sex), is by no means fit to be the object of our honor and veneration, or to hold her head higher than man and be on equal terms with him.
In the Politics Aristotle explains the great disadvantage which accrued to the Spartans from the fact that they conceded too much to their women, by giving them the right of inheritance and dower, and a great amount of independence; and he shows how much this contributed to Sparta's fall. May it not be the case in France that the influence of women, which went on increasing steadily from the time of Louis XIII., was to blame for that gradual corruption of the Court and the Government, which brought about the Revolution of 1789, of which all subsequent disturbances have been the fruit?
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