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FTER conidering the hitoric page, and viewing the living world with anxious olicitude, the mot melancholy emotions of orrowful indignation have depreed my pirits, and I have ighed when obliged to confes, that either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial. I have turned over various books written on the ubject of education, and patiently oberved the conduct of parents and the management of chools; but what has been the reult?—a profound conviction that the neglected education of my fellow-creatures is the grand ource of the miery I deplore; and that women, in particular, are rendered weak and wretched by a variety of concurring caues, originating from one haty concluion. The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy tate; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a oil, Rh