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338 the matrimonial tie, ecures to the pledges of a warmer paion the neceary parental attention; for children will never be properly educated till friendhip ubits between parents. Virtue flies from a houe divided againt itelf—and a whole legion of devils take up their reidence there.

The affection of hubands and wives cannot be pure when they have o few entiments in common, and when o little confidence is etablihed at home, as mut be the cae when their puruits are o different. That intimacy from which tendernes hould flow, will not, cannot ubit between the vicious.

Contending, therefore, that the exual ditinction which men have o warmly inited upon, is arbitrary, I have dwelt on an obervation, that everal enible men, with whom I have convered on the ubject, allowed to be well founded; and it is imply this, that the little chatity to be found amongt men, and conequent diregard of modety, tend to degrade both exes; and further, that the modety of women, characterized as uch, will often be only the artful veil of wantonnes intead of being the natural reflection of purity, till modety be univerally repected.

From the tyranny of man, I firmly believe, the greater number of female follies proceed; and the cunning, which I allow makes at preent a part of their character, I likewie have repeatedly endeavoured to prove, is produced by oppreion.

Were not dienters, for intance, a clas of people, with trict truth characterized as ning?&ensp;