Fa. I believe you judge, that a Male is naturally more excellent and strong than a Female.
Eu. I believe they are.
Fa. That is Mens Opinion. But are Men any Thing longer-liv'd than Women? Are they free from Distempers?
Eu. No, but in the general they are stronger.
Fa. But then they themselves are excell'd by Camels in Strength.
Eu. But besides, the Male was created first.
Fa. So was Adam before Christ. Artists use to be most exquisite in their later Performances.
Eu. But God put the Woman under Subjection to the Man.
Fa. It does not follow of Consequence, that he is the better because he commands, he subjects her as a Wife, and not purely as a Woman; and besides that he so puts the Wife under Subjection, that tho' they have each of them Power over the other, he will have the Woman to be obedient to the Man, not as to the more excellent, but to the more fierce Person. Tell me, Eutrapelus, which is the weaker Person, he that yields to another, or he that is yielded to?
Eu. I'll grant you that, if you will explain to me, what Paul meant when he wrote to the Corinthians, that Christ was the Head of the Man, and Man the Head of the Woman; and again, when he said, that a Man was the Image and Glory of God, and a Woman the Glory of the Man.