Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.
. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.
A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.
The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.
Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.