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Rh neceary from habit even when it has ceaed to amue.

But, till more equality be etablihed in ociety, till ranks are confounded and women freed, we hall not ee that dignified dometic happines, the imple grandeur of which cannot be relihed by ignorant or vitiated minds; nor will the important tak of education ever be properly begun till the peron of a woman is no longer preferred to her mind. For it would be as wie to expect corn from tares, or figs from thitles, as that a foolih ignorant woman hould be a good mother.

is not neceary to inform the agacious reader, now I enter on my concluding reflections, that the dicuion of this ubject merely conits in opening a few imple principles, and clearing away the rubbih which obcured them. But, as all readers are not agacious, I mut be allowed to add ome explanatory remarks to bring the ubject home to reaon—to that luggih reaon, which upinely takes opinions on trut, and obtinately upports them to pare itelf the labour of thinking.

Moralits have unanimouly agreed, that unles virtue be nured by liberty, it will never attain due trength—and what they ay of man I extend to mankind, initing that in all caes morals mut be fixed on immutable principles; and, that the being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reaon. To&ensp;