Oh yeah, oh yeah, I really can’t wait to read what this guy Augustine has to say after this in the intro:
Augustine came to find his own mother Monica possessed of great wisdom, but she spoke in a demotic syntax. In short, although he knew that well-educated and cultured women existed, yet they were the far side of the horizon. He himself never had one among his own circle of friends. So he felt sure that ‘if God had wanted Adam to have a partner in scintillating conversation he would have created another man; the fact that God created a woman showed that he had in mind the survival of the human race.’ (p. xviii)
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology