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 as their highet Advancement, and End and Deign of all their Attainments.

Can any one uppoe that a young Creature thus diciplined, hould ever take it into her Head, that her truet Happines, as well as greatet Honour, hould arie from the Service of God, and free Exertion of her own Soul? That he hould Endeavour by all Means to attain a Fund of Reaon, Learning, and Knowledge ufficient to furnih Entertainment for her whole Life?

Thus having no Notion of true Worth in herelf, he is as little a Judge of it in others, but reigns herelf to the Ignorant, the Vain, or the Vicious, as they come recommended by Title, Equipage or Fortune.

I would not from hence be thought to infer, that none but foolih Women marry, or that Celibacy is preferable to Marriage, with a Man of Worth. I would only give ome Check to that Triumph, and Self-admiration which ome Men are apt to conceive, upon an Obervation, that mot Women are willing to marry at ome time or other; by hewing that they are diqualified from the very beginning for the true Enjoyment of their own Minds, and therefore notwith-