Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state o… - Vicesimus Knox

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Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

Vicesimus Knox

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(8 December 1752 – 6 September 1821) was an English essayist, headmaster and Anglican priest.

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Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? - Vicesimus Knox

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