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Rh in lovelines,' the portion of rationality granted to woman, is indeed very canty; for, denying her genius and judgment, it is carcely poible to divine what remains to characterize intellect. The tamina of immortality, if I may be allowed the phrae, is the perfectibility of human reaon: for, was man created perfect, or did a flood of knowledge break in upon him, when he arrived at maturity, that precluded error, I hould doubt whether his exitence would be continued after the diolution of the body. But, in the preent tate of things, every difficulty in morals that ecapes from human dicuion, and equally baffles the invetigation of profound thinking, and the lightning glance of genius, is an argument on which I build my belief of the immortality of the oul. Reaon is, conequentially, the imple power of improvement; or, more properly peaking, of dicerning truth. Every individual is in this repect a world in itelf. More or les may be conpicuous in one being than another; but the nature of reaon mut be the ame in all, if it be an emanation of divinity, the tie that connects the creature with the Creator; for, can that oul be tamped with the heavenly image, that is not perfected by the exercie of its own&ensp;