Unto the woman he said, &c.— "Thy sorrow, by thy conception," says Mr. Locke. This has indeed been fulfilled upon the female sex, as no females, it is asserted, know so much sorrow, and so much anguish, during the time of conception, and in the hour of parturition, as those of the human species.
Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee— Whence we may gather, that woman was thus degraded from that equality with man in which she was created, and would undoubtedly have continued in a state of innocence and perfection; for in such a state there seems no imaginable reason, why one sex should be in subjection to the other: the woman was given at first as a help-meet, as a proper and equal companion to the man.