ok i didn't i didn't want to pour david hume's tombstone. but matthew hale was a jurist and he came up with the doctrine about that involves the question of sexual consent in a marriage and the doctrine that he formulated and it proved to be extraordinarily influential and as you said lost it for many centuries was that essentially when a woman consents to marry a man and she has to consent to that it's very important that she does consent to that that she's essentially consenting to give him sexual access to her body not just at that very moment but for the for the property of their marriage and this became a notion of basically it was called implicit consent so that throughout a marriage if a husband or a man ever wanted to have sex with his wife he essentially did not have to get her say so he could have it and therefore if he raped her by definition it wasn't rape because she had given her consent at the moment when she consented to be married and what's you know what's astonishing about that argument is not just the argument itself but

john locke, voltaire, and david hume. these guys who critiqued the power of theocracy. it seems to me, if you can build on those kinds of ideas that you might be able to overcome the drag of fundamentalist beliefs, which i believe are retarding the economic and social development. and if you could give me your email, i would be very appreciative. [laughter] maybe now or later. >> now would be very hard. i have seen a lot of discussions about the future of egypt and being very worried about islamists ruling the country. i could be wrong. i do not have a problem admitting that. if you look at the history of egypt in the past, a couple of hundred years, egypt was colonized by the french people and hardly any egyptian speak french. well, if you look at other nations that were colonized by the french, probably they speak more french than error back off. the british people colonized egypt and also most of our people speak broken english as you can tell. and the shia, one religious example, they came to egypt to build the largest institute that spread their belief across our w