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90 for being maculine, or turning out of her phere; nay, he may oberve another of his grand rules, and cautiouly preerving her reputation free from pot, be reckoned a good kind of woman. Yet in what repect can he be termed good? She abtains, it is true, without any great truggle, from committing gros crimes; but how does he fulfil her duties? Duties!—in truth he has enough to think of to adorn her body and nure a weak contitution.

With repect to religion, he never preumed to judge for herelf; but conformed, as a dependent creature hould, to the ceremonies of the church which he was brought up in, piouly believing that wier heads than her own have ettled that buines:—and not to doubt is her point of perfection. She therefore pays her tythe of mint and cummin—and thanks her God that he is not as other women are. Thee are the bleed effects of a good education! Thee the virtues of man's help-mate !

I mut relieve myelf by drawing a different picture.

Let fancy now preent a woman with a tolerable undertanding, for I do not wih to leave the line of mediocrity, whoe contitution, trengthened by exercie, has allowed her body to acquire its full vigour; her mind, at the ame time, dually&ensp;