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110 they are excited, by their tation in ociety, to acquire. This overtretched enibility naturally relaxes the other powers of the mind, and prevents intellect from attaining that overeignty which it ought to attain to render a rational creature ueful to others, and content with its own tation: for the exercie of the undertanding, as life advances, is the only method pointed out by nature to calm the paions.

Satiety has a very different effect, and I have often been forcibly truck by an emphatical decription of damnation:—when the pirit is repreented as continually hovering with abortive eagernes round the defiled body, unable to enjoy any thing without the organs of ene. Yet, to their enes, are women made laves, becaue it is by their enibility that they obtain preent power.

And will moralits pretend to aert, that this is the condition in which one half of the human race hould be encouraged to remain with litles inactivity and tupid acquiecence? Kind intructors! what were we created for? To remain, it may be aid, innocent; they mean in a tate of childhood.—We might as well never have been born, unles it were neceary that we hould be created to enable man to acquire the noble privilege of reaon, the power of dicerning good from evil, whilt we lie down in the dut from whence we were taken, never to rie again.—

It would be an endles tak to trace the variety of meannees, cares, and orrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reaon, and&ensp;