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18 trength and uefulnes are acrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleaed a fatidious eye, fade, diregarded on the talk, long before the eaon when they ought to have arrived at maturity.—One caue of this barren blooming I attribute to a fale ytem of education, gathered from the books written on this ubject by men who, conidering females rather as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mitrees than rational wives; and the undertanding of the ex has been o bubbled by this pecious homage, that the civilized women of the preent century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inpire love, when they ought to cherih a nobler ambition, and by their abilities and virtues exact repect.

In a treatie, therefore, on female rights and manners, the works which have been particularly written for their improvement mut not be overlooked; epecially when it is aerted, in direct terms, that the minds of women are enfeebled by fale refinement; that the books of intruction, written by men of genius, have had the ame tendency as more frivolous productions; and that, in the true tyle of Mahometanim, they are only conidered as females, and not as a part of the human pecies, when improvable on&ensp;