Thelyphthora: A Treatise on Female Ruin/Volume III
Memorandum
[edit]The grand question to be tried is, whether a system filled with obligation and responsibility of Men to Women, and Women to Men, even unto death itself, and that established by Infinite Wisdom, is not better calculated to prevent the ruin of the female sex, with all its horrid consequences, both to the public and individuals, than a system of human contrivance, where neither obligation nor responsibility, either of Men to Women or of Women to Men, in instances of the most important concern to Both, but more especially to the weaker sex.