Rate It Leviathan Nasty and brutish perhaps, but definitely, definitely not short. Rate It Pensees 61. I know a little what it is, and how few people understand it. No human science can keep it. Saint Thomas did not keep it.
Mathematics keep it, but they are useless on account of their depth.
It is, therefore, proper for us to know who told us so, that we may know what credit to give to the report. It hath been an old remark, that Geometry is an excellent Logic. So, also, a thought is limited by another thought, but a body is not limited by thought, nor a thought by body. As the sum of human happiness is supposed to consist in the goods of mind, body, and fortune, I would fain make my studies of some use to mankind with regard to each of these three particulars, and hope it will not be thought faulty or indecent in any man, of what profession soever, to offer his mite towards improving the manners, health, and prosperity of his fellow-creatures. On the other point which is involved in the just equality of women, their admissibility to all the functions and occupations hitherto retained as the monopoly of the stronger sex, I should anticipate no difficulty in convincing anyone who has gone with me on the subject of the equality of women in the family.