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HAT woman is naturally weak, or degraded by a concurrence of circumtances, is, I think, clear. But this poition I hall imply contrat with a concluion, which I have frequenlyfrequently [sic] heard fall from enible men in favour of an aritocracy: that the mas of mankind cannot be any thing, or the obequious laves, who patiently allow themelves to be penned up, would feel their own conequence, and purn their chains. Men, they further oberve, ubmit every where to oppreion, when they have only to lift up their heads to throw off the yoke; yet, intead of aerting their birthright, they quietly lick the dut, and ay, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. Women, I argue from analogy, are degraded by the ame propenity to enjoy the preent moment; and, at lat, depie the freedom which they have not ufficient virtue to truggle to attain. But I mut be more explicit.

With repect to the culture of the heart, it is unanimouly allowed that ex is out of the quetion; but the line of ubordination in the mental powers is never to be paed over. Only olute&ensp;