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. The general tone is certainly not encouraging. It holds the male sex to be absolutely superior in matters physical, intellectual and moral. While criticising with his habitual sarcasm the errors, fopperies and vices of the female sex, Swift does not even trouble to consider what has made them so depraved. The nearest suggestion of possible blame to the male sex in regard to their treatment of women is to be found in a passage in the
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. There are certain signs of a coming dawn in this passage. After complaining of the degeneracy of conversation,
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Swift suggests that it may be partly owing to
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In this respect he readily admits the superiority of the more peaceable part of Charles the First's reign,
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when the example set by France, and the love-ideals prevailing among French society found English followers,