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Rh generoity, that the exes ought not to be compared; man was made to reaon, woman to feel; and that together, fleh and pirit, they make the mot perfect whole, by blending happily reaon and enibility into one character.

And what is enibility? 'Quicknes of enation; quicknes of perception; delicacy.' Thus is it defined by Dr. Johnon; and the definition gives me no other idea than of the mot exquiitely polihed intinct. I dicern not a trace of the image of God in either enation or matter. Refined eventy times even, they are till material; intellect dwells not there; nor will fire ever make lead gold!

I come round to my old argument; if woman be allowed to have an immortal oul, he mut have, as the employment of life, an undertanding to improve. And when, to render the preent tate more complete, though every thing proves it to be but a fraction of a mighty um, he is incited by preent gratification to forget her grand detination, Nature is counteracted, or he was born only to procreate and die. Or, granting brutes, of every decription, a oul, though not a reaonable one, the exercie of intinct and enibility may be the tep, which they are to take, in this life, towards the attainment of reaon in the next; o that through all eternity they will lag behind man, who, why we cannot tell, had the power given him of attaining reaon in his firt mode of exitence.

When I treat of the peculiar duties of women, as I hould treat of the peculiar duties of a citizen or father, it will be found that I do not mean to Rh