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124 and passions, and thus acting wrong, than she will be of acting blindly from the advice of parents or friends.

enough, we have in this day a class of intellectual ladies, who boldly contend for the absolute equality of the sexes, and who write books for the purpose of proving this doctrine, and spreading it throughout society. As far as we are able to understand what they do believe, we infer that they hold the only radical difference that exists between a man and a woman to be the difference of physical conformation—the social difference that is seen every where, arising from man’s superior physical power, by which he is able to keep woman in subjection. They claim for woman equal civil and political privileges with man, and see nothing but tyranny in the law, or usage that has the force of law, which keeps a woman out