NOTE 23.

And hence, by parity of reason, under the opposite circumstances,

under the circumstances which, instead of abolishing, most

emphatically drew forth the sexual distinctions, viz., in the

_comic_ aspects of social intercourse, the reason that we see

no women on the Greek stage; the Greek Comedy, unless when it

affects the extravagant fun of farce, rejects women.

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