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264 Parental affection, indeed, in many minds, is but a pretext to tyrannize where it can be done with impunity, for only good and wie men are content with the repect that will bear dicuion. Convinced that they have a right to what they init on, they do not fear reaon, or dread the ifting of ubjects that recur to natural jutice: becaue they firmly believe that the more enlightened the human mind becomes the deeper root will jut and imple principles take. They do not ret in expedients, or grant that what is metaphyically true can be practically fale; but didaining the hifts of the moment they calmly wait till time, anctioning innovation, ilences the his of elfihnes or envy.

If the power of reflecting on the pat, and darting the keen eye of contemplation into futurity, be the grand privilege of man, it mut be granted that ome people enjoy this prerogative in a very limited degree. Every thing now appears to them wrong; and not able to ditinguih the poible from the montrous, they fear where no fear hould find a place, running from the light of reaon, as if it were a firebrand; yet the limits of the poible have never been defined to top the turdy innovator's hand.

Woman, however, a lave in every ituation to prejudice, eldom exerts enlightened maternal affection; for he either neglects her children, or poils them by improper indulgence. Beides, the affection of ome women for their children is, as I have before termed it, frequently very brutih: for it eradicates every park of humanity. Jutice, truth, every thing is acrificed by thee&ensp;