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Rh And may I not lay ome tres on this fact to prove, that when any power but reaon curbs the free pirit of man, diimulation is practied, and the various hifts of art are naturally called forth? Great attention to decorum, which was carried to a degree of crupuloity, and all that puerile butle about trifles and conequential olemnity, which Butler's caricature of a dienter, brings before the imagination, haped their perons as well as their minds in the mould of prim littlenes. I peak collectively, for I know how many ornaments to human nature have been enrolled amongt ectaries; yet, I aert, that the ame narrow prejudice for their ect, which women have for their families, prevailed in the dienting part of the community, however worthy in other repects; and alo that the ame timid prudence, or headtrong efforts, often digraced the exertions of both. Oppreion thus formed many of the features of their character perfectly to coincide with that of the oppreed half of mankind; for is it not notorious that dienters were, like women, fond of deliberating together, and aking advice of each other, till by a complication of little contrivances, ome little end was brought about? A imilar attention to preerve their reputation was conpicuous in the dienting and female world, and was produced by a imilar caue.

Aerting the rights which women in common with men ought to contend for, I have not attempted to extenuate their faults; but to prove them to be the natural conequence of their education and tation in ociety. If o, it is able&ensp;