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108 which they receive from ociety, the love of pleaure may be aid to govern them all; but does this prove that there is a ex in ouls? It would be jut as rational to declare that the courtiers in France, when a detructive ytem of depotim had formed their character, were not men, becaue liberty, virtue, and humanity, were acrificed to pleaure and vanity.—Fatal paions, which have ever domineered over the whole race!

The ame love of pleaure, fotered by the whole tendency of their education, gives a trifling turn to the conduct of women in mot circumtances: for intance, they are ever anxious about econdary things; and on the watch for adventures, intead of being occupied by duties.

A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general, the end in view; a woman thinks more of the incidental occurrences, the trange things that may poibly occur on the road; the impreion that he may make on her fellow-travellers; and, above all, he is anxiouly intent on the care of the finery that he carries with her, which is more than ever a part of herelf, when going to figure on a new cene; when, to ue an apt French turn of expreion, he is going to produce a enation.—Can dignity of mind exit with uch trivial cares?

In hort, women, in general, as well as the rich of both exes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and mied the ueful fruit. It is not neceary for me always to premie, that I peak of the condition of the whole ex, leaving exceptions out of the quetion. Their enes are inflamed, and their undertandings neglected, conequently&ensp;