“The warlike duty of defense is also borne chiefly by males, and must often be an immense tax on the energies.”

—  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

September 1874, Popular Science Monthly Vol. 5, Article: The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction , p. 608
The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)

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