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52 or, only be o far admitted as it proves that man, from the remotet antiquity, found it convenient to exert his trength to ubjugate his companion, and his invention to hew that he ought to have her neck bent under the yoke; becaue he, as well as the brute creation, was created to do his pleaure.

Let it not be concluded that I wih to invert the order of things; I have already granted, that, from the contitution of their bodies, men eem to be deigned by Providence to attain a greater degree of virtue. I peak collectively of the whole ex; but I ee not the hadow of a reaon to conclude that their virtues hould differ in repect to their nature. In fact, how can they, if virtue has only one eternal tandard? I mut therefore, if I reaon conequentially, as trenuouly maintain that they have the ame imple direction, as that there is a God.

It follows then that cunning hould not be oppoed to widom, little cares to great exertions, nor inipid oftnes, varnihed over with the name of gentlenes, to that fortitude which grand views alone can inpire.

I hall be told that woman would then loe many of her peculiar graces, and the opinion of a well known poet might be quoted to refute my unqualified aertion. For Pope has aid, in the name of the whole male ex,

In what light this ally places men and women, I hall leave to the judicious to determine; meanwhile&ensp;