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Rh it. Whilt other indolent women neglecting every peronal duty, have thought that they deerved their huband's affection, becaue they aked, in this repect with propriety.

Weak minds are always fond of reting in the ceremonials of duty, but morality offers much impler motives; and it were to be wihed that uperficial moralits had aid les repecting behaviour, and outward obervances, for unles virtue, of any kind, is built on knowledge, it will only produce a kind of inipid decency. Repect for the opinion of the world, has, however, been termed the principal duty of woman in the mot expres words, for Roueau declares, 'that reputation is no les indipenable than chatity.' 'A man,' adds he, 'ecure in his own good conduct, depends only on himelf, and may brave the public opinion; but a woman, in behaving well, performs but half her duty; as what is thought of her, is as important to her as what he really is. It follows hence, that the ytem of a woman's education hould, in this repect, be directly contrary to that of ours. Opinion is the grave of virtue among the men; but its throne among women.' It is trictly logical to infer that the virtue that rets on opinion is merely worldly, and that it is the virtue of a being to whom reaon has been denied. But, even with repect to the opinion of the world, I am convinced that this clas of reaoners are mitaken.

This regard for reputation, independent of its being one of the natural rewards of virtue, however, took its rie from a caue that I lave already deplored as the grand ource of female depravity, the&ensp;