...simply changed its position; for the parts that are inside in the woman are outside in the man. . . . Now just as mankind is the most perfect of all animals,...excess heat, for heat is Nature's primary instrument. . . . The woman is less perfect than the man in respect to the generative parts. For the parts were...

...on their varying degrees of heat. Women simply lacked the heat to propel their sex organs outward: Now just as mankind is the most perfect of all animals,...excess heat, for heat is Nature's primary instrument . . . the woman is less perfect than the man in respect to the generative parts. For the parts were...

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...literature, as shown by this representative statement taken from Galen's On the Useßflness of Parts 2:630: "Now just as mankind is the most perfect of all animals,...within mankind the man is more perfect than the woman." convictions as a sign of an uncertain relation to reason, a sure sign of someone's defect. Shortly...

...left there imperfect and remain like the eves of other animals when these are still in uterus. . . . Now just as mankind is the most perfect of all animals,...woman, and the reason for his perfection is his excess of heat, for heat is Nature's primarv instrument. Hence, in those animals that have less of it. her...

...the truism behind such thinking when he writes: Now just as mankind is the most perfect of all the animals, so within mankind the man is more perfect...woman, and the reason for his perfection is his excess of heat, for heat is Nature's primary instrument. (De usu partium 14, II, 299; 1968: 630) In contrast...

...concept an even more solid framework by writing, around 200 AD: Just as mankind is the most perfect of animals, so within mankind, the man is more perfect than the woman, and the reason for this perfection is the excess heat, for heat is Nature's primary instrument . . . the woman is less...

...animals the warm one is more active, a colder animal would be less perfect than the warmer." Again, "Now just as mankind is the most perfect of all animals,...than the woman, and the reason for his perfection is the excess of heat, for heat is Nature's primary instrument." For lack of heat the female generative...

...stated: The female is less perfect than the male for one principal reason because she is colder... Now just as mankind is the most perfect of all animals,...woman, and the reason for his perfection is his excess of heat, for heat is Nature's primary instrument. Hence in those animals that have less of it, her...

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