Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.