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DUCATED in the enervating tyle recommended by the writers on whom I have been animadverting; and not having a chance, from their ubordinate tate in ociety, to recover their lot ground, is it urpriing that women every where appear a defect in nature? Is it urpriing, when we conider what a determinate effect an early aociation of ideas has on the character, that they neglect their undertandings, and turn all their attention to their perons?

The great advantages which naturally reult from toring the mind with knowledge, are obvious from the following coniderations. The aociation of our ideas is either habitual or intantaneous; and the latter mode eems rather to depend on the original temperature of the mind than on the will. When the ideas, and matters of fact, are once taken in, they lie by for ue, till ome fortuitous circumtance makes the information dart into the mind with illutrative force, that has been received at very different periods of our lives. Like the lightning's flah are many recollections; one idea aimilating and explaining another, with atonihing rapidity. I do not now allude to that quick perception of truth, which is o intuitive that it baffles reearch, and makes&ensp;