Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“The advance from the hoe to the plough put a premium upon physical strength and enabled the man to assert his supremacy leading to the sexual subordination of woman… mother-right yielded to father-right… The gods, who had been mostly feminine, became great bearded patriarchs… the man was lord, the woman was servant.”

Will Durant 1885 – 1981 CE
Philosophy apostle and popularizer of history's lessons
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