The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman,- Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin. (Henry Adams)

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman,- Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

Henry Adams

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