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260 ituation which neceity ometimes forces them to fill; thee ituations are conidered in the light of a degradation; and they know little of the human heart, who need to be told, that nothing o painfully harpens the enibility as uch a fall in life.

Some of thee women might be retrained from marrying by a proper pirit or delicacy, and others may not have had it in their power to ecape in this pitiful way from ervitude; is not that government then very defective, and very unmindful of the happines of one half of its members, that does not provide for honet, independent women, by encouraging them to fill repectable tations? But in order to render their private virtue a public benefit, they mut have a civil exitence in the tate, married or ingle; ele we hall continually ee ome worthy woman, whoe enibility has been rendered painfully acute by undeerved contempt, droop like 'the lily broken down by a plow-hare.'

It is a melancholy truth; yet uch is the bleed effect of civilization! the mot repectable women are the mot oppreed; and, unles they have undertandings far uperiour to the common run of undertandings, taking in both exes, they mut, from being treated like contemptible beings, become contemptible. How many women thus wate life away the prey of dicontent, who might have practied as phyicians, regulated a farm, managed a hop, and tood erect, upported by their own indutry, intead of hanging their heads urcharged with the dew of enibility, that conumes the beauty to which it at firt gave&ensp;