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Since the soul was made to contemplate truth, keeping women from knowledge is as cruel and unjust as keeping them from good
Drawn from what Mary Astell said
What Mary Astell actually said
- Mary Astell English philosopher (1666 to 1731), born in Newcastle
Being the Soul was created for the contemplation of Truth as well as for the fruition of Good, is it not as cruel and unjust to preclude Women from the knowledge of the one as from the enjoyment of the other?
Where this was said
↗A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II (1694, 1697; 1697 printing)gutenberg.org
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