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314 credulity of women, pretending to cat nativities, to ue the technical word; and many females who, proud of their rank and fortune, look down on the vulgar with overeign contempt, hew by this credulity, that the ditinction is arbitrary, and that they have not ufficiently cultivated their minds to rie above vulgar prejudices. Women, becaue they have not been led to conider the knowledge of their duty as the one thing neceary to know, or, to live in the preent moment by the dicharge of it, are very anxious to peep into futurity, to learn what they have to expect to render life intereting, and to break the vacuum of ignorance.

I mut be allowed to expotulate eriouly with the ladies who follow thee idle inventions; for ladies, mitrees of families, are not ahamed to drive in their own carriages to the door of the cunning man. And if any of them hould perue this work, I entreat them to anwer to their own hearts the following quetions, not forgetting that they are in the preence of God.

Do you believe that there is but one God, and that he is powerful, wie, and good?

Do you believe that all things were created by him, and that all beings are dependent on him?

Do you rely on his widom, o conpicuous in his works, and in your own frame, and are you convinced that he has ordered all things which do not come under the cognizance of your enes, in the ame perfect harmony, to fulfil his deigns? Do&ensp;