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112 rooms till their mucles are relaxed, and their powers of digetion detroyed. To carry the remark till further, if fear in girls, intead of being cherihed, perhaps, created, was treated in the ame manner as cowardice in boys, we hould quickly ee women with more dignified apects. It is true, they could not then with equal propriety be termed the weet flowers that mile in the walk of man; but they would be more repectable members of ociety, and dicharge the important duties of life by the light of their own reaon. 'Educate women like men,' ays Roueau, 'and the more they reemble our ex the les power will they have over us.' This is the very point I aim at. I do not wih them to have power over men; but over themelves.

In the ame train have I heard men argue againt intructing the poor; for many are the forms that aritocracy aumes. 'Teach them to read and write,' ay they, 'and you take them out of the tation aigned them by nature.' An eloquent Frenchman has anwered them, I will borrow his entiments. But they know not, when they make man a brute, that they may expect every intant to ee him transformed into a ferocious beat. Without knowledge there can be no morality!

Ignorance is a frail bae for virtue! Yet, that it is the condition for which woman was organized, has been inited upon by the writers who have mot vehemently argued in favour of the uperiority of man; a uperiority not in degree, but eence; though, to often the argument, they have laboured to prove, with chivalrous generoity,&ensp;