 Although early modern philosophy did not seem to associate concepts of the emotions as such with gender, there is still a great deal of gender-baggage to investigate. Many authors took the position that there were important sexual differences in the disposition to feel specific emotions. Malebranche allowed that there are many such differences, not just between the sexes, but for different ages, fortunes and stations in life; indeed, it is differences between individuals’ “stations in life” that do the most work for him in explaining variations in affective susceptibilities. Other authors laid such variations at the doorstep of bodily composition, especially the constitution of the brain, and took the relevant differences to be especially and intrinsically marked between the sexes (although they could also typify class and rank). In Les Characteres des Passions (1648–62), Marin Cureau de la Chambre discussed the effects that the liquid humours in the brain could have on emotional temperament, taking it as an explanation of why some people (women, as well as children and drunkards) cry more readily than others.