sequaciousness

Updated: May 10, 2025

The brutally healthy boy contemns the female sex because he sees it incapable of his own athletic sports, but Godwin was one of those upon whose awaking intellect is forced a perception of the brain-defect so general in women when they are taught few of life's graces and none of its serious concerns, their paltry prepossessions, their vulgar sequaciousness, their invincible ignorance, their absorption in a petty self.

George Gissing - Born in Exile