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Rh the motive of action, is never to be found with ignorance; the portivenes of innocence, o pleaing to refined libertines of both exes, is widely different in its eence from this uperiour gracefulnes.

A trong inclination for external ornaments ever appears in barbarous tates, only the men not the women adorn themelves; for where women are allowed to be o far on a level with men, ociety has advanced, at leat, one tep in civilization.

The attention to dres, therefore, which has been thought a exual propenity, I think natural to mankind. But I ought to expres myelf with more preciion. When the mind is not ufficiently opened to take pleaure in reflection, the body will be adorned with edulous care; and ambition will appear in tattooing or painting it.

So far is the firt inclination carried, that even the hellih yoke of lavery cannot tifle the avage deire of admiration which the black heroes inherit from both their parents, for all the hardly earned avings of a lave are commonly expended in a little tawdry finery. And I have eldom known a good male or female ervant that was not particularly fond of dres. Their clothes were their riches; and, I argue from analogy, that the fondnes for dres, o extravagant in females, aries from the ame caue—want of cultivation of mind. When men meet they convere about buines, politics, or literature; but, ays Swift, 'how naturally do women apply their hands to each others lappets and ruffles.' And very natural is it—for they have not any buines Rh