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Rh is unfolding; but when your mind arrives at maturity, you mut only obey me, or rather repect my opinions, o far as they coincide with the light that is breaking in on your own mind.

A lavih bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind; and Mr. Locke very judiciouly oberves, that 'if the mind be curbed and humbled too much in children; if their pirits be abaed and broken much by too trict an hand over them; they loe all their vigour and indutry.' This trict hand may in ome degree account for the weaknes of women; for girls, from various caues, are more kept down by their parents, in every ene of the word, than boys. The duty expected from them is, like all the duties arbitrarily impoed on women, more from a ene of propriety, more out of repect for decorum than reaon; and thus taught lavihly to ubmit to their parents, they are prepared for the lavery of marriage. I may be told that a number of women are not laves in the marriage tate. True, but they then become tyrants; for it is not rational freedom, but a lawles kind of power reembling the authority exercied by the favourites of abolute monarchs, which they obtain by debaing means. I do not, likewie, dream of ininuating that either boys or girls are always laves, I only init that when they are obliged to ubmit to authority blindly, their faculties are weakened, and their tempers rendered imperious or abject. I alo lament that parents, indolently availing themelves of a uppoed privilege, damp the firt faint glimmering of reaon, rendering at the ame time the duty, which they are o ious&ensp;