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AVING read with great pleaure a pamphlet, which you have lately publihed, on National Education, I dedicate this volume to you the—firt dedication that I have ever written, to induce you to read it with attention; and, becaue I think that you will undertand me, which I do not uppoe many pert witlings will, who may ridicule the arguments they are unable to anwer. But, Sir, I carry my repect for your undertanding till farther; o far, that I am confident you will not throw my work aide, and hatily conclude that I am in the wrong, becaue you did not view the ubject in the ame light yourelf. And, pardon my franknes, but I mut oberve, that you treated it in too curory a manner, contented to conider it as it had been conidered formerly, when the rights of man, not to advert to woman, were trampled on as chimerical—I call upon you, therefore, now Rh