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Rh The neceity of polygamy, therefore, does not appear; yet when a man educes a woman, it hould, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage, and the man hould be legally obliged to maintain the woman and her children, unles adultery, a natural divorcement, abrogated the law. And this law hould remain in force as long as the weaknes of women caued the word eduction to be ued as an excue for their frailty and want of principle; nay, while they depend on man for a ubitence, intead of earning it by the exertion of their own hands or heads. But thee women hould not, in the full meaning of their relationhip, be termed wives, or the very purpoe of marriage would be ubverted, and all thoe endearing charities that flow from peronal fidelity, and give a anctity to the tie, when neither love nor friendhip unites the hearts, would melt into elfihnes. The woman who is faithful to the father of her children demands repect, and hould not be treated like a protitute; though I readily grant that if it be neceary for a man and woman to live together in order to bring up their offspring, nature never intended that a man hould have more than one wife.

Still, highly as I repect marriage, as the foundation of almot every ocial virtue, I cannot avoid feeling the mot lively companion for thoe unfortunate females who are broken off from ociety, and by one error torn from all thoe affections and relationhips that improve the heart and mind. It does not frequently even deerve the name of error; for many innocent girls become the dupes of a incere affectionate heart, and till more&ensp;