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MEN and WOMEN compared. 
If you afk me, is not the fault in men, that you are not, 
in general, better inftrudled ? — That more care is not taken 
in female education, feems to arife from one capital negledt in 
men: they do not attentively confider, that you are half the fpe- 
cies, and have half the government of the world, tho’ it does 
not appear fo to vulgar eyes : they often forget than both fexes 
are under your care and tutelage in the dawnings of reafon ; and 
that our fird impreilions are the mod: lading. If you were 
taught to be more like men, in underdanding, you would 
teach men to be less like women in the folly and vanity which 
your want of indru&ion fird occafions. Adieu. I am yours, &C. 
LETTER XXVIII. 
Ttf the fame . 
Madam, 
W ILL you now give me leave to make a few more ob- 
fervations, which may perhaps be of fome ufe to your 
friend, whofe inexperience afforded matter for this lucubration, 
if they are of none to yourfelf? 
In comparing the learning and more extenfive knowledge of 
men with that delicacy, in manners, as well as person, which 
are the chara&eridics of an amiable woman, our great poet 
milton obferves, that what fhe fays, or does, 
“ Seems wifefl , virtuoufeft , difcreetefl , beflS 
Thus it happens at lead; to men who receive impreffions of her 
charms : but whilft men have reafoning faculties fhe will ap- 
pear, 
