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Rh When Richardon makes Claria tell Lovelace that he had robbed her of her honour, he mut have had trange notions of honour and virtue. For, mierable beyond all names of miery is the condition of a being, who could be degraded without its own conent! This exces of trictnes I have heard vindicated as a alutary error. I hall anwer in the words of Leibnitz–'Errors are often ueful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.'

Mot of the evils of life arie from a deire of preent enjoyment that outruns itelf. The obedience required of women in the marriage tate comes under this decription; the mind naturally weakened by depending on authority, never exerts its own powers, and the obedient wife is thus rendered a weak indolent mother. Or, uppoing that this is not always the conequence, a future tate of exitence is carcely taken into the reckoning when only negative virtues are cultivated. For, in treating of morals, particularly when women are alluded to, writers have too often conidered virtue in a very limited ene, and made the foundation of it olely worldly utility; nay, a till more fragile bae has been given to this tupendous fabric, and the wayward fluctuating feelings of men have been made the tandard of virtue. Yes, virtue as well as religion, has been ubjected to the deciions of tate.

It would almot provoke a mile of contempt, if the vain aburdities of man did not trike us on all ides, to oberve, how eager men are to degrade Rh