Great faults and great virtues are often found in the same person. In
nothing very bad, but as to women: and did not one of them begin with
me.*
* See Vol. I. Letter XXXI.
We have held, that women have no souls. I am a very Turk in this point,
and willing to believe they have not. And if so, to whom shall I be
accountable for what I do to them? Nay, if souls they have, as there is
no sex in ethereals, nor need of any, what plea can a lady hold of
injuries done her in her lady-state, when there is an end of her
lady-ship?