 | Catherine Gallagher, Thomas Laqueur - History - 1987 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | Londa Schiebinger - History - 1991 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Laqueur - History - 1992 - 342 pages
...scrotum, and so forth.8 The reason for this curious state of affairs is the purported telos of perfection. "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" (UP 2.630). The mole is a more perfect animal than... | |
 | Marilyn Migiel, Juliana Schiesari - History - 1991 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie Bullough - Psychology - 1993 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - Electronic books - 1995 - 346 pages
...of the body. transl. Margaret Tallmadge May, Cornell University Press, 1968, vol. II, pp. 630-2. 1. Now just as mankind is the most perfect of all animals,...mankind the man is more perfect than the woman, and the primary instrument. Hence in those animals that have less of it, her workmanship is necessarily more... | |
 | Margrit Shildrick - Medical - 1997 - 266 pages
...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... | |
 | Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle - History - 1998 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | Plinio Prioreschi - Medical - 1996 - 795 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary F. Foskett - Religion - 2002 - 249 pages
...body was seen as the expression of a "purported telos of perfection," whereby one could conclude that "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."1 Viewed in this light, the female body appears perpetually... | |
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Now just as mankind is the most perfect of all animals, so within mankind the man is more perfect than the woman, and the reason for his perfection is his excess of heat, for heat is Nature's primary instrument. 
