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Rh and hubands; for the bills of mortality are welled by the blunders of elf-willed old women, who give notrums of their own without knowing any thing of the human frame. It is likewie proper, only in a dometic view, to make women acquainted with the anatomy of the mind, by allowing the exes to aociate together in every puruit; and by leading them to oberve the progres of the human undertanding in the improvement of the ciences and arts; never forgetting the cience of morality, nor the tudy of the political hitory of mankind.

A man has been termed a microcom; and every family might alo be called a tate. States, it is true, have motly been governed by arts that digrace the character of man; and the want of a jut contitution, and equal laws, have o perplexed the notions of the worldly wie, that they more than quetion the reaonablenes of contending for the rights of humanity. Thus morality, polluted in the national reervoir, fends off treams of vice to corrupt the contituent parts of the body politic; but hould more noble, or rather, more jut principles regulate the laws, which ought to be the government of ociety, and not thoe who execute them, duty might become the rule of private conduct.

Beides, by the exercie of their bodies and minds women would acquire that mental activity o neceary in the maternal character, united with the fortitude that ditinguihes teadines of conduct from the obtinate perverenes of weaknes. For it is dangerous to advie the indolent to be teady, becaue they intantly become Rh