Now, the most determined depreciator of women will not venture to deny, that when we add the experience of recent times to that of ages past, women, and not a few merely, but many women, have proved themselves capable of everything, perhaps without a single exception, which is done by men, and of doing it successfully and creditably.
"The Subjection of Women"
John Stuart Mill
Thirdly, two scraps from letters from Stevenson to Henley, to show that the latter was not always a depreciator of R. L. Stevenson's work: 1. I'm glad to think I owe you the review that pleased me best of all the reviews I ever had.
"Robert Louis Stevenson a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial"
Alexander H. Japp
He poses, to be sure, as a depreciator of woman.
"Modern American Prose Selections"
Various