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 not to continue any longer than our Children remain in the Nurery, but it hould decline and extinguih, as we ee it does in other Creatures, when it can be of no further Service to the Offpring.

If we are accidentally diqualified by a foolih trifling Education, where does that Imputation revert, but upon thoe Perons Under whoe Direction and Authority we are o educated?

If a econd Marriage expoes Children by a Former, to the Oppreion of a latter Huband, and Utterly diables the Mother to recue them from it; whence does that Inability arie, but from thoe Laws which give the Huband o exorbitant a Power over the Wife, that he cannot exert herelf in thoe Duties which God has commanded her to do, unles it be at the Will and Pleaure of her Huband?

The Sum of this Argument is this,

That we are not naturally diqualified to educate our Children, for God gives no natural Intict in Vain: Not accidentally diqualified, unles by the Fault of the Other Sex, in the Education they give us, and the Laws they make for us.

I confes that by the preent Laws, we may be deemed diqualified to be intruted with the Education of our Children, much