Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume 2. 1934 — 1935

Letter ID: 680

Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar

Undated

Re. Dilip’s note: As to who tempts first – man or woman? I quoted from Addison’s Sir Roger de Coverlay who used to say, importantly in every blessed controversy,

“Much can be said on both sides.”

It is six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. To throw it all on the woman is Adamism. To ignore the man’s part is feminism. Both are in error. Sir Roger was right.