every headlong stream / Devolves its winding waters to the main.

These are startling terms indeed for someone so often thought of as the arch-misogynist and arch-sexist of the Enlightenment period.

In addition to the basic charge that Christians were atheists was the charge that they were also haters of mankind.

For most of the Raindrop Prelude, the listener is bombarded with repeated A♭s or G♯s in the same register—just below middle C.