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Rh the unophiticated mind, though it might not have had ufficient energy to dicover them itelf, when obcured by local prejudices. The greater number of people take their opinions on trut to avoid the trouble of exerciing their own minds, and thee indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the pirit of a law, divine or human. 'Women,' ays ome author, I cannot recollect who, 'mind not what only heaven ees.' Why, indeed hould they? it is the eye of man that they have been taught to dread—and if they can lull their Argus to leep, they eldom think of heaven or themelves, becaue their reputation is afe; and it is reputation, not chatity and all its fair train, that they are employed to keep free from pot, not as a virtue, but to preerve their tation in the world.

To prove the truth of this remark, I need only advert to the intrigues of married women, particularly in high life, and in countries where women are uitably married, according to their repective ranks, by their parents. If an innocent girl become a prey to love, he is degraded forever, though her mind was not polluted by the arts which married women, under the convenient cloke of marriage, practie; nor has he violated any duty—but the duty of repecting herelf. The married woman, on the contrary, breaks a mot acred engagement, and becomes a cruel mother when he is a fale and faithles wife. If her huband has till an affection for her, the arts which he mut practie to deceive him, will render her the mot contemptible of human beings; and, at any rate, the contrivances neceary to Rh