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Date: 1790?

"That you, my young friend, may be enabled, by the Grace of God, to preserve your heart pure and unsullied, as at the moment of quitting your parents roof, through every temptation which may beset you; and that it may, like metal purified in the furnace, shine forth so much the brighter from triu...

— Kilner, Dorothy (1755-1836)

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Date: 1792

"Man, taking her body, the mind is left to rust; so that while physical love enervates man, as being his favourite recreation, he will endeavour to enslave woman."

— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.