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98, with a few exceptions, with their exual character. Let men prove this, and I hall grant that woman only exits for man. I mut, however, previouly remark, that the power of generalizing ideas, to any great extent, is not very common amongt men or women. But this exercie is the true cultivation of the undertanding; and every thing conpires to render the cultivation of the undertanding more difficult in the female than the male world.

I am naturally led by this aertion to the main ubject of the preent chapter, and hall now attempt to point out ome of the caues that degrade the ex, and prevent women from generalizing their obervations.

I hall not go back to the remote annals of antiquity to trace the hitory of woman; it is ufficient to allow that he has always been either a lave, or a depot, and to remark, that each of thee ituations equally retards the progres of reaon. The grand ource of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arie from narrownes of mind; and the very contitution of civil governments has put almot inuperable obtacles in the way to prevent the cultivation of the female undertanding:—yet virtue can be built on no other foundation! The ame obtacles are thrown in the way of the rich, and the ame conequences enue.

Neceity has been proverbially termed the mother of invention—the aphorim may be extended to virtue. It is an acquirement, and an acquirement to which pleaure mut be acrificed—and who acrifices pleaure when it is within the&ensp;