Domestic races of the same species, also, often have a somewhat monstrous character; by which I mean, that, although differing from each other, and from the other species of the same genus, in several trifling respects, they often differ in
an extreme degree in some one part, both when compared one with another, and more especially when compared with all the species in nature to which they are nearest allied.
And if, I said, the male and female sex appear to differ in
their fitness for any art or pursuit, we should say that such pursuit or art ought to be assigned to one or the other of them; but if the difference consists only in women bearing and men begetting children, this does not amount to a proof that a woman differs from a man in respect of the sort of education she should receive; and we shall therefore continue to maintain that our guardians and their wives ought to have the same pursuits.
These early ballads of the Chinese differ in
feeling from almost all the ballad literature of the world.
Why, then, sir," said he, "be pleased to give me leave to lay down a few propositions, as the foundation of what I have to say, that we may not differ in
the general principles, though we may be of some differing opinions in the practice of particulars.