STUDY X. I9 



Ah ! how little acquainted are they with the 

 Laws of Nature, who, in the union of the two 

 fexes, look for nothing farther than the pleafures 

 of fenfe ! They are only culling the flowers of life, 

 without once tailing of it's fruit. The fair fex ! 

 this is the phrafe of our men of pleafure ; women 

 are known to them under no other idea. But the 

 fex is fair only to perfons who have no other fa- 

 culty except that of eye-fight. Befides this it is, 

 to thofe who have a heart, the creative fex which, 

 at the peril of life, carries Man, for nine months, 

 in the wombj and the cherifhing fex, which 

 fuckles and tends him in infancy. It is the pious 

 fex which conducts him to the altar while he is yet 

 a child, and teaches him to draw in, with the milk 

 of the breaft, the love of a religion which the 

 cruel policy of men would frequently render odious 

 to him. It is the pacific fex, which fheds not the 

 blood of a fellow-creature; the fympathizing fex, 

 which minifters to the fick, and handles without 

 hurting them. 



To no purpofe does Man pretend to boafl of 

 his power and his ftrength ; if his robuft hands 

 are able to fubdue iron and brafs, thofe of the 

 woman, more dextrous, and more ufefully em- 

 ployed, can fpin into threads the flax and the 

 fleeces of the fheep. The one encounters gloomy 

 care with the maxims of philofophy ; the other 



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