STUDY VII. 



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equal numbers, every man comes into the world, 

 and leaves it, in company with his female. Every 

 man, therefore, who prefers celibacy to the mar- 

 ried ftate, dooms a female, at the fame time, to a 

 fingle life. I'he ecclefiaftical order robs the fex 

 of fo many huibands ; and the focial order de- 

 prives them of the means of fubfiflence. Our ma- 

 nufadures and machinery, fo ingenioufly induf- 

 trious, have fwallowed up almoft all the arts by 

 which they were formerly enabled to earn a liveli- 

 hood. I do not fpeak of thofe who knit flock- 

 ings, embroider, weave, 8cc. employments which, 

 in better times, fo many worthy matrons followed, 

 but which are now entirely engroffed by perfons 

 bred to the bufmefs, but we have, forfooth ! tay- 

 lors, fhoemakers, male hair-dreffers for the ladies. 

 We have men-milliners, dealers in linen, gauze, 

 muflin, gum-liowers. Men are not afhamed to 

 alTume to themfelves the eafy and commodious 

 occupations, and to leave to the poor women, the 

 rougher and more laborious. Wc have female 

 dealers in cattle, in pigs, driving through fairs on 

 horfeback : there are others who vend bricks, and 

 navigate barges, quite embrowned with the fun ; 

 fome labour in quarries. 



We meet multitudes, in Paris, fvveating under 

 an enormous load of linen, under heavy water- 

 pails, blacking {hoes on the quays j others yoked, 



like 



