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96 own reaon ? Yet outwardly ornamented with elaborate care, and o adorned to delight man, 'that with honour he may love ,' the oul of woman is not allowed to have this ditinction, and man, ever placed between her and reaon, he is always repreented as only created to ee through a gros medium, and to take things on trut. But, dimiing thee fanciful theories, and conidering woman as a whole, let it be what it will, intead of a part of man, the inquiry is whether he has reaon or not. If he has, which, for a moment, I will take for granted, he was not created merely to be the olace of man, and the exual hould not detroy the human character.

Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a fale light; not conidering it as the firt tep to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection ; but only as a preparation for life. On this enual error, for I mut call it o, has the fale ytem of female manners been reared, which robs the whole ex of its dignity, and claes the brown and fair with the miling flowers that only adorns the land. This has ever been the language of men, and the fear of departing from a uppoed exual character, has made even women of uperiour ene&ensp;