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Rh Roueau's obervations, it is proper to remark, were made in a country where the art of pleaing was refined only to extract the grones of vice. He did not go back to nature, or his ruling appetite diturbed the operations of reaon, ele he would not have drawn thee crude inferences.

In France boys and girls, particularly the latter, are only educated to pleae, to manage their perons, and regulate their exterior behaviour; and their minds are corrupted, at a very early age, by the worldly and pious cautions they receive to guard them againt immodety. I peak of pat times. The very confeions which mere children were obliged to make, and the quetions aked by the holy men, I aert thee facts on good authority, were ufficient to impres a exual character; and the education of ociety was a chool of coquetry and art. At the age of ten or eleven; nay, often much ooner, girls began to coquet, and talked, unreproved, of etablihing themelves in the world by marriage.

In hort, they were made women, almot from their very birth, and compliments were litened to intead of intruction. Thee, weakening the mind, Nature was uppoed to have acted like a tep-mother, when he formed this after-thought of creation.

Not allowing them undertanding, however, it was but conitent to ubject them to authority independent of reaon; and to prepare them for this ubjection, he gives the following advice:

'Girls ought to be active and diligent; nor is that all; they hould alo be early ubjected to retraint. This misfortune, if it really be one, Rh