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178 to attain worldly happines, on a confined plan, were turned into an anxious deire to improve the undertanding.—'Widom is the principal thing: therefore get widom; and with all thy gettings get undertanding.'—'How long, ye imple ones, will ye love implicity, and hate knowledge?' aith Widom to the daughters of men!

not mean to allude to all the writers who have written on the ubject of female manners—it would, in fact, be only beating over the old ground, for they have in general, written in the ame train; but attacking the boated prerogative of man—the prerogative that may emphatically be called the iron ceptre of tyranny, the original in of tyrants, I declare againt all power built on prejudices, however hoary.

If the ubmiion demanded be founded on jutice—there is no appealing to a higher power—for God is Jutice itelf. Let us then, as children of the ame parent, if not batardized by being the younger born, reaon together, and learn to ubmit to the authority of reaon—when her voice is ditinctly heard. But, if it be proved, that this throne of prerogative only rets on a chaotic mas of prejudices, that have no inherent principle of order to keep them together, or on an elephant, tortoie, or even the mighty houlders of a on of the earth, they may ecape, who dare to brave the conequence, without any breach of duty, without inning againt the order of things. Whilt&ensp;