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Rh clas, becaue they appear to be in the mot natural tate. Perhaps the eeds of fale refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been hed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raied above the common wants and affections of their race, in a premature unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and pread corruption through the whole mas of ociety! As a clas of mankind they have the tronget claim to pity; the education of the rich tends to render them vain and helples, and the unfolding mind is not trengthened by the practice of thoe duties which dignify the human character.—They only live to amue themelves, and by the ame law which in nature invariably produces certain effects, they oon only afford barren amuement.

But as I purpoe taking a eparate view of the different ranks of ociety, and of the moral character of women, in each, this hint is, for the preent, ufficient; and I have only alluded to the ubject, becaue it appears to me to be the very eence of an introduction to give a curory account of the contents of the work it introduces.

My own ex, I hope, will excue me, if I treat them like rational creatures, intead of Rh