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 Yet as we never were, or can be in a State of Nature, I don't preume to contend for an Equality, but acknowledge that God has for very wie Reaons inveted Man with the Superiority; but without Recoure to Revelation, I believe it would be a hard Talk to jutify the carrying the Authority of the Huband, higher than Mr. Wollaton has done.

Bur I will for once, even with Mr. Hobbs, uppoe we were in a State of Nature, and ee what he ays would be the Conequence of it.

" And thus in a State of Nature, every Woman that bears Children becomes at once both a Mother and a Lord. But what ome ay that in this Cae, the Father by Reaon of the Pre-eminence of Sex, and not the Mother, becomes Lord, ignifies nothing. For both Reaon hews the contrary, becaue the Inequality of their natural Forces is not o great, as that the Man could get the Dominion without War; and Cutom alo contradicts not, for Women, namely Amazons, have in former Times waged War with their Adveraries, and dipoed of their Children according