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Rh I know that a little enibility, and great weaknes, will produce a trong exual attachment, and that reaon mut cement friendhip; conequently, I allow that more friendhip is to be found in the male than the female world, and that men have a higher ene of jutice. The excluive affections of women eem indeed to reemble Cato's mot unjut love for his country. He wihed to cruh Carthage, not to ave Rome, but to promote its vain-glory; and, in general, it is to imilar principles that humanity is acrificed, for genuine duties upport each other.

Beides, how can women be jut or generous, when they are the laves of injutice?

the rearing of children, that is, the laying a foundation of ound health both of body and mind in the riing generation, has jutly been inited on as the peculiar detination of woman, the ignorance that incapacites them mut be contrary to the order of things. And I contend that their minds can take in much more, and ought to do o, or they will never become enible mothers. Many men attend to the breeding of hores, and overlook the management of the table, who would, trange want of ene and feeling! think themelves degraded by paying any attention to the nurery; yet, how many children are abolutely murdered by the ignorance of women! But when they ecape, and are neither detroyed by unnatural negligence nor blind fondnes, how few are managed properly with repect to the fant&ensp;