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ployments of the two sexes precisely the same, 

 would, if practicable in itself, be productive of 

 the most immoral consequences. Let us suppose 

 young females to mingle promiscuously with the 

 youth of the other sex, in their studies, in their 

 amusements, and in all the means adopted to 

 Strengthen the bodies and the minds of each. Let 

 us suppose, that after the elements of knowledge 

 were acquired, the same employments Avere as- 

 signed to each sex. Let us suppose the various 

 stations of civil trust to be filled indifferently by 

 men and women ; the places destined for the in- 

 struction of lawyers, physicians, and surgeons, to 

 be occupied by a jumbled crowd of male and fe- 

 male students; the clerkships in counting-houses, 

 and public offices, executed by a joint corps of 

 male and female penmen ; and the bands of la- 

 bourers in manufactories formed without any 

 distinction of sex. What would be the conse- 

 quence of these arrangements } It would con- 

 vert society into hordes of seducers and prosti- 

 tutes. Instead of the regularity, the order, the 

 pleasing charities, and the pure delights of wed- 

 ded love, a s^^stem of universal concubinage 

 would prevail. Seminaries of learning would be 

 changed into nurseries of licentiousness and dis- 

 ease y the proceedings of deliberative assemblies 

 w^ould be perverted or arrested by the wiles of 

 amorous intrigue; the places of commercial or 

 mechanical business would become the haunts of 

 noisy and restless lewdness ; and all sober em- 

 ployment would yield to the dominion of brutal 

 appetite. 

 Let us take a retrospect of those countries and 



