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 upon the Quotations from thee Authors, and draw ome Concluions which I think follow from their Principles.

Fourthly, I hall explain the original Cure of Subjection paed upon the Woman, and hew that the Laws of England go far beyond it.

Firt, Mr Wollaton in his Religion of Nature repreents the two Sexes, as exact Counter Parts to each other, he peaks, " of the Interchange of Affections, and a Conpiration of all their Counsels and Measures, the Qualities and Abilities of the one Sex being fitted, and as it were tallying to the Wants of the other. Many things there are which may be ueful, perhaps neceary to the Man, and yet require the delicater Hand and nicer Management and Genius of the Woman: And o the Woman, cannot but want many things which require the more robut and active Powers, or greater Capacity of the Man."

Again, " I have designedly forborn to mention that Authority of an Huband over his Wife, which is uually given to