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22 their facinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a tate of perpetual childhood, unable to tand alone. I earnetly wih to point out in what true dignity and human happines conits—I wih to peruade women to endeavour to acquire trength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the oft phraes, uceptibility of heart, delicacy of entiment, and refinement of tate, are almot ynonimous with epithets of weaknes, and that thoe beings who are only the objects of pity and that kind of love, which has been termed its iter, will oon become objects of contempt.

Dimiing then thoe pretty feminine phraes, which the men condecendingly ue to often our lavih dependence, and depiing that weak elegancy of mind, exquiite enibility, and weet docility of manners, uppoed to be the exual characteritics of the weaker veel, I wih to hew that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the firt object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardles of the ditinction of ex; and that econdary views hould be brought to this imple touchtone.

This is a rough ketch of my plan; and hould I expres my conviction with the energetic emotions that I feel whenever I think of the ubject, the dictates of experience and flection&ensp;