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156 and excluive appropriation of reaon? The rights of humanity have been thus confined to the male line from Adam downwards. Roueau would carry his male aritocracy till further, for he ininuates, that he hould not blame thoe, who contend for leaving woman in a tate of the mot profound ignorance, if it were not neceary in order to preerve her chatity and jutify the man's choice, in the eyes of the world, to give her a little knowledge of men, and the cutoms produced by human paions; ele he might propagate at home without being rendered les voluptuous and innocent by the exercie of her undertanding: excepting, indeed, during the firt year of marriage, when he might employ it to dres like Sophia. 'Her dres is extremely modet in appearance, and yet very coquettih in fact: he does not make a diplay of her charms, he conceals them; but in concealing them, he knows how to affect your imagination. Every one who ees her, will ay, There is a modet and dicreet girl; but while you are near her, your eyes and affections wander all over her peron, o that you cannot withdraw them; and you would conclude, that every part of her dres, imple as it eems, was only put in its proper order to be taken to pieces by the imagination.' Is this modety? Is this a preparation for immortality? Again.—What opinion are we to form of a ytem of education, when the author ays of his heroine, 'that with her, doing things well, is but a econdary concern; her principal concern is to do them neatly.' Secondary,&ensp;