Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and … - John Locke

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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

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Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

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