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 God, by charging it upon his Compliance with Eve, he ays, ''the Woman whom thou gavet to be with me, he gave me of the Tree, and I did eat. The Woman whom thou gavet to be with me'', i. e. whom thou gavet to be my Aociate and Companion, without the leat hint of Subjection, and Dependency. Nor was there the leat Reaon for any in that State, as I hewed before."

We ee it is the Opinion of this Orthodox Divine, that the Sexes were equal before the Fall: And that after the nicet Search Mr. Wollaton and Mr. Hobbs could make into Nature, they could find no Foundation in Nature for that very great Superiority which is acribed to the Man.

How comes it to pas then, that the Opinions and Cutoms of all Nations hould give him that Superiority, even where 'tis uppoed they could have had no Information of the Cure of Subjection paed upon the Woman? I ay all Nations, the Exceptions being too few to detroy a general Rule, tho' enough to etablih Mr. Hobbs's Aertion, that the Superiority is not founded in Nature. In