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Thirdly. To advocate the system which woufcf 

 confound all distinctions of sex, except in the bu- 

 siness of love, is as much opposed to the spirit of 

 Christianity as it is inconsistent with the pursuits 

 of the female sex, and immoral in its consequences. 

 Those who are familiar with the scriptures will re- 

 collect, that a line of distinction between the sexes 

 is frequently and carefully drawn therein, and an 

 habitual reference to this distinction represented 

 as highly important in the system of human duty. 

 Upon this distinction, considered in several points 

 of view, are founded some of the most inter- 

 esting conjugal obligations, and all the leading 

 principles of domestic government. The scriptures, 

 indeed, do not exhibit woman as an enslaved and 

 servile being ; they represent her as a rational and 

 immortal creature, as the counsellor, companion, 

 and help-mate of men, and teach us, both by pre- 

 cept and example, to consider her as holding a 

 high and respectable station in society. But they 

 exclude her, by direct prohibition, from the office 

 of public religious instructor, and plainly intimate, 

 that several other employments and pursuits are 

 unfit to engage her attention. In short, they dis- 

 tinctly and unequivocally hold up the idea of an 

 appropriate sexual character, and represent a cor- 

 responding peculiarity of studies and action, as 

 properly belonging to the male and female. 



It is evident, then, from reason, from the uni- 

 form course of nature, from experience, and from 

 the word of God, that females are destined for dif- 

 ferent pursuits and employments from men, and 

 that the sphere of their activity should be different. 

 This, of consequence, will call for a different educa- 

 tion, will lead to different habits, and will give rise 

 to distinguishing characteristics. Do not the pro- 

 fessional employments of men every day beget ob- 

 servable peculiarities of character and taste ? And 



