About A Hundred Years Past Its Prime. SURE, ROME WAS built in a day, and every facet of human nature can be explained in a 250-page book.
Men are taller and stronger, women are fatter and slower, and so on.
At first, his statements seem innocuous, simply detailing the sexually dimorphic picture of our species. Hardly earth-shattering information. In between these biological enumerations, however, Morris throws in unproven, value-laden fabrications, many of which he contradicts later in the book. For instance, he claims male infants vigorously seek out novel, hammer-like toys, while their subdued counterparts quietly play with objects placed before them. These differences all occur long before there can have been any adult influences or 'gender role' bias.