likewise point in the same direction: the adventurers in that poem are first involved at Carthage by the affair of the amorous Dido; their own women afterwards set fire to the fleet; and lastly, their struggles and disasters in the promised land have a similar origin:

“Causa tanti mali conjur iterum."

17 The mistress of Cethegus, a man very powerful in his day, may be said to have had, at one time, the whole power and patronage of the city at her disposal. The mistress of Verres, the prætor, had equal influence, and persons of worth and honour were obliged to court her smiles. This it was that made Cicero exclaim, in his famous oration," What a shame is it that a prætor should perform the functions of his office as it pleased a woman!"

18 Who is she? a rajah was always in the habit of asking, whenever a calamity was related to him, however severe or however trivial. His attendants reported to him one morning that a labourer had fallen from a scaffold when working at his palace, and had broken his neck. "Who is she?" demanded the rajah. “A man; no woman, great prince," was the reply. "Who is she?" repeated the rajah, with increased anger. In vain did the attendants assert the manhood of the labourer. " Bring me instant intelligence what woman caused this accident, or woe upon your heads!" exclaimed the prince. In an hour the active attendants returned, and prostrating themselves, cried out, "O wise and powerful prince, as the ill fated labourer was working on the scaffold, he was attracted by the beauty of one of your highness's damsels, and gasing on her, lost his balance and fell to the ground."

"You hear now," said the prince, “no accident can happen, without a woman being, in some way, an instrument.” CAPT. SKINNER's Excursions in India.

(19) I am sorry to say it, but I have too often observed that fear as well as love is necessary on the lady's part, to make wedlock happy; and it will generally do it, if the man sets out with asserting his power and her dependance.-RICHARDSON's Elegant Epistles.

CHAPTER II

INTELLECT IN WOMAN.

“ Well I know, in the prime end Of nature, her th' inferior; in the mint And inward faculties, which most excel

§ 1.—THE true sphere of woman is a prone the importance of which can scarcely be emanrated; and there are respects in vich stond be distinctly understood what it is not, as wel as what it is. Now, although woman be, in ommon with man, distinguished by the possession of reason, yet is not the sphere of genius here: she can claim neither its properties nor its pr vileges, and intellectual excellence is still is her province than it is her peculiarity.

Power of mind is sexual: that vigor of ge which distinguishes man is rarely to be found in the opposite sex; in a word, woman is a creature less intellectual than man. If we regard

the head as the fountain of intellect-the heart as the source of the affections-we may adopt the figurative language of Chamfort: The female has a cell less in the head:" whether, as a recompense on the part of nature, she can boast "a fibre more in the heart," must be a point for consideration elsewhere *.

This much for the present we may be allowed to take for granted-the intellectual powers of woman differ from those of man, as well as her physical properties: Mind with her, both as to its operations and products, is of another kind, and takes a totally different direction.

Woman best appreciates what falls under the jurisdiction of sensation. She sometimes displays wit, but not genius; she thinks, but does not meditate, and is not so much a reasoning creature, as a creature capable of reason; while to improve is within the reach of the female mind, to create is matter of difficulty and performance; rather subtle than solid, it analyses with elegance, but not logically-with considerable grace, but very rarely with accuracy (1).

* Vide chap. xv,