This regulation of duty by the mere circumstance of sex, rather than by the fundamental principle of moral being, has led to all that multifarious train of evils flowing out of the anti-christian doctrine of masculine and feminine virtues.
Grimké critiques the regulation of duty based on gender, linking it to various societal evils.
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