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woman's chief excellence confifts in being able to make 

 a pudding. 



On the virtue, diligence, and fufHcient learning and 

 fentiment of women, depends the colour and texture 

 of the characbers of their fons. Errors, fays Hippo- 

 crates, of the firft concoftion, are feldom to be cured 

 by a fecond. Men fmell of the nurfery all their days ; 

 nor is it poffible by fchools and colleges, to eradicate 

 the principles that are rooted in children by their mo- 

 thers, and by the women that furround them in in- 

 fancy. Citizens of North America, 1 addrefs you in 

 the words of your hiftorian, who has recorded the glo- 

 ries of your fuccefsful attainment of liberty and inde- 

 pendence. " Cherifh and reward the philofophers, the 

 ftatefmeu and the patriots, who devote their talents 

 and time, at the expence of their private interelts, to 

 the toils of enlightening and directing their fellow-ci- 

 tizens, and thereby refcue citizens and rulers of repub- 

 lics, from the common and too often merited charge of 

 ingratitude : Practice induftry, frugality, temperance, 

 moderation, obedience to the law, and the whole love- 

 ly train of republican virtues : Banilh from your bor- 

 ders, and from your land, the liquid fire of the Weft 

 Indies, and the effeminacy of the Eaft : Venerate the 

 plough, the hoe, and all the implements of agriculture ; 

 but remember that the improvements of agriculture, 

 and of every ufeful art, muft depend uponfcience : Cul- 

 tivate therefore ufeful fcience, and encourage it in o- 

 thers ; hold forth your purfes to afford it to the people ; 

 for without fcience there can be no reafon, and with- 

 out reafon there can be no government, and without 

 government there can be no fecurity. 



I am, Mr. Editor, your humble fervant, 



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