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304 affections, they hould be ent to chool to mix with a number of equals, for only by the jotlings of equality can we form a jut opinion of ourelves.

To render mankind more virtuous, and happier of coure, both exes mut act from the ame principle; but how can that be expected when only one is allowed to ee the reaonablenes of it? To render alo the ocial compact truly equitable, and in order to pread thoe enlightening principles, which alone can meliorate the fate of man, women mut be allowed to found their virtue on knowledge, which is carcely poible unles they are educated by the ame puruits as men. For they are now made o inferiour by ignorance and low deires, as not to deerve to be ranked with them; or, by the erpentine wrigglings of cunning they mount the tree of knowledge, and only acquire ufficient to lead men atray.

It is plain from the hitory of all nations, that women cannot be confined to merely dometic puruits, for they will not fulfil family duties, unles their minds take a wider range, and whilt they are kept in ignorance they become in the ame proportion the laves of pleaure as they are the laves of man. Nor can they be hut out of great enterpries, though the narrownes of their minds often make them mar, what they are unable to comprehend.

The libertinim, and even the virtues of uperiour men, will always give women, of ome decription, great power over them; and thee weak women, under the influence of childih paions&ensp;