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316 foolih women! which throws an odium on your ex! And thee reflexions hould make you hudder at your thoughtlenes, and irrational devotion.—For I do not uppoe that all of you laid aide your religion, uch as it is, when you entered thoe myterious dwellings. Yet, as I have throughout uppoed myelf talking to ignorant women, for ignorant ye are in the mot emphatical ene of the word, it would be aburd to reaon with you on the egregious folly of deiring to know what the Supreme Widom has concealed.

Probably you would not undertand me, were I to attempt to hew you that it would be abolutely inconitent with the grand purpoe of life, that of rendering human creatures wie and virtuous: and that, were it anctioned by God, it would diturb the order etablihed in creation; and if it be not anctioned by God, do you expect to hear truth? Can events be foretold, events which have not yet aumed a body to become ubject to mortal inpection, can they be foreeen by a vicious worldling, who pampers his appetites by preying on the foolih ones?

Perhaps, however, you devoutly believe in the devil, and imagine, to hift the quetion, that he may ait his votaries; but, if really repecting the power of uch a being, an enemy to goodnes and to God, can you go to church after having been under uch an obligation to him?

From thee deluions to thoe till more fahionable deceptions, practied by the whole tribe of magnetiers, the tranition is very natural. With repect to them, it is equally proper to ak women a few quetions. Do&ensp;