The Great Chain of Being
http://www.stanford.edu/class/engl174b/chain.html
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| The Great Chain of Being: a powerful visual metaphor for a divinely inspired universal hierarchy ranking all forms of higher and lower life; humans are represented by the male alone. From Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana (1579). Reproduced here from Anthony Fletcher's Gender, Sex, & Subordination. |
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