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Rh ene adopt the ame entiments. Thus undertanding, trictly peaking, has been denied to woman; and intinct, ublimated into wit and cunning, for the purpoes of life, has been ubtituted in its tead.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehenive concluions from individual obervations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deerves the name of knowledge. Merely to oberve, without endeavouring to account for any thing, may (in a very incomplete manner) erve as the common ene of life; but where is the tore laid up that is to clothe the oul when it leaves the body?

This power has not only been denied to women; but writers have inited that it is itent,&ensp;