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Rh the Supreme Being: and, having no fear of the devil before mine eyes, I venture to call this a uggetion of reaon, intead of reting my weaknes on the broad houlders of the firt educer of my frail ex.

'It being once demontrated,' continues Roueau, 'that man and woman are not, nor ought to be, contituted alike in temperament and character, it follows of coure that they hould not be educated in the ame manner. In puruing the directions of nature, they ought indeed to act in concert, but they hould not be engaged in the ame employments: the end of their puruits hould be the ame, but the means they hould take to accomplih them, and of conequence their tates and inclinations, hould be different .'

'Whether I conider the peculiar detination of the ex, oberve their inclinations, or remark their duties, all things equally concur to point out the peculiar method of education bet adapted to them. Woman and man were made for each other, but their mutual dependence is not the ame. The men depend on the women only on account of their deires; the women on the men both on account of their deires and their neceities: we could ubit better without them than they without us .'

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