The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
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The Importance of Nature in the Pursuit of Mankind
Can you mention any pursuit of mankind in which the male sex has not all these gifts and qualities in a higher degree than the female? One woman has a gift of healing, another not. One is a musician, and another has no music in her nature. No one will deny that. Will not these be the sort of differences which distinguish the man gifted by nature from the one who is ungifted? And those women who have such qualities are to be selected as the companions and colleagues of men who have similar qualities.
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