... from any priestly function. It now regarded them as the special representatives of the despised element of sex in life.[290] The eccentric Tertullian had once declared that woman was janua Diaboli; nearly seven hundred years later, even the gentle and philosophic Anselm wrote: Femina fax est Satanae.[291] ... — Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
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