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Rh ought to be removed to other chools, and receive intruction, in ome meaure appropriated to the detination of each individual, the two exes being till together in the morning; but in the afternoon, the girls hould attend a chool, where plain-work, mantua-making, millinery, &c. would be their employment.

The young people of uperiour abilities, or fortune, might now be taught in another chool, the dead and living languages, the elements of cience, and continue the tudy of hitory and politics, on a more extenive cale, which would not exclude polite literature.

Girls and boys till together? I hear ome readers ak: yes. And I hould not fear any other conequence than that ome early attachment might take place; which, whilt it had the bet effect on the moral character of the young people, might not perfectly agree with the views of the parents, for it will be a long time, I fear, before the world is o enlightened that parents, only anxious to render their children virtuous, will let them chooe companions for life themelves.

Beides, this would be a ure way to promote early marriages, and from early marriages the mot alutary phyical and moral effects naturally flow. What a different character does a married citizen aume from the elfih coxcomb, who lives, but for himelf, and who is often afraid to marry let he hould not be able to live in a certain tyle. Great emergencies excepted, which would rarely occur in a ociety of which equality was the bais, a man could only be prepared to dicharge the duties of public life, by the Rh