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Rh It is not impious thus to can the attributes of the Almighty: in fact, who can avoid it that exercies his faculties? For to love God as the fountain of widom, goodnes, and power, appears to be the only worhip ueful to a being who wihes to acquire either virtue or knowledge. A blind unettled affection may, like human paions, occupy the mind and warm the heart, whilt, to do jutice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God, is forgotten. I hall purue this ubject till further, when I conider religion in a light oppoite to that recommended by Dr. Gregory, who treats it as a matter of entiment or tate.

To return from this apparent digreion. It were to be wihed that women would cherih an affection for their hubands, founded on the ame principle that devotion ought to ret upon. No other firm bae is there under heaven—for let them beware of the fallacious light of entiment; too often ued as a ofter phrae for enuality. It follows then, I think, that from their infancy women hould either be hut up like eatern princes, or educated in uch a manner as to be able to think and act for themelves.

Why do men halt between two opinions, and expect impoibilities? Why do they expect virtue from a lave, from a being whom the contitution of civil ociety has rendered weak, if not vicious?

Still I know that it will require a coniderable length of time to eradicate the firmly rooted prejudices which enualits have planted; it will alo require ome time to convince women that Rh