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 Application we oblige them to betow in a thousand Things upon which we contantly fix their Attention, while their corporeal Faculties are left without Exercie, may likewie contribute a great deal to retard their Growth. So that if, intead of overloading and fatiguing their Minds a thouand different Ways, we permitted them to exercie their Bodies in thoe continual Motions, which Nature eems to require, it is probable they would be much earlier in a Condition to walk and tir about, and provide for themelves.

Mr. Locke, in fine, proves at mot that there may be in Man a Motive to live with the Woman when he has a Child; but he by no Means proves that there was any Neceity for his living with her before her Delivery and during the nine Months of her Pregnancy: If a pregnant Woman comes to be indifferent to the Man by whom he is pregnant during thee nine Months, if he even comes to be entirely forgot by him, why hould he ait her after her Delivery? Why hould he help her to rear a Child, which he does not know to be his, and whoe Birth he neither