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are uppoed to poes more enibility, and even humanity, than men, and their trong attachments and intantaneous emotions of compaion are given as proofs; but the clinging affection of ignorance has eldom any thing noble in it, and may motly be reolved into elfihnes, as well as the affection of children and brutes. I have known many weak women whoe enibility was entirely engroed by their hubands; and as for their humanity, it was very faint indeed, or rather it was only a tranient emotion of compaion. Humanity does not conit 'in a queamih ear,' ays an eminent orator. 'It belongs to the mind as well as the nerves.'

But this kind of excluive affection, though it degrades the individual, hould not be brought forward as a proof of the inferiority of the ex, becaue it is the natural conequence of confined views: for even women of uperiour ene, having their attention turned to little employments, and private plans, rarely rie to heroim, unles when purred on by love; and love, as an heroic paion, like genius, appears but once in an age. I therefore agree with the moralit who aerts, 'that women have eldom o much generoity as men;' and that their narrow affections, to which jutice and humanity are often acrificed, render the ex apparently inferiour, epecially, as they are commonly inpired by men; but I contend that the heart would expand as the undertanding gained trength, if women were not depreed from their cradles. I&ensp;