Excerpt from Woman in Epigram: Flashes of Wit, Wisdom, and Satire From World's Literature With all their wooing and worshipping, men have looked at their divinity but to differ in opinion. Lessing thought God meant to make woman his masterpiece, and Milton deemed her a fair defect of nature Shakespeare calls her another name for frailty, and Holmes thinks her the Mes siah of a new faith. To one she has seemed divine, and to another satanic. Where shall we draw the line between dangerous ex tremes? Who shall draw it? The fabled mariner who sought the open channel be tween Scylla and Charybdis had an easy task compared with that of the sex-casuist of to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.