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

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

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.

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