What is antithesis?
Read the excerpt from An Essay on Man.Know, then, thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.
Read the passage from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.The rights and duties of man thus simplified, it seems almost impertinent to attempt to illustrate truths that appear so incontrovertible: yet such deeply rooted prejudices have clouded reason, and such spurious qualities have assumed the name of virtues, that it is necessary to pursue the course of reason as it has been perplexed and involved in error, by various adventitious circumstances, comparing the simple axiom with casual deviations.
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