It would fill the world with innumerable immoralities and give such occasion for intrigues as people can not meet with. You would have a couple of lovers make a midnight assignation upon the top of the monument and see the cupola of St. Paul's covered with both sexes like the outside of a pigeon house. Nothing would be more frequent than to see a beau flying in at a garret window or a gallant giving chase to his mistress like a hawk after a lark. - Joseph Addison. [Concerns about where manned flight might lead (1713)]
via lhup.edu
Joseph Addison wasn't convinced that manned flight would be a good (moral!) idea.
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