Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.
"Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900". Book by Charles Stewart, p. 33, 1901.
