Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Quote

To man the earth seems altogether
No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.


First Week, Third Day. Compare: "It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother" Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book vii, Section 1. - La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)


To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.

To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.

To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.

To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.