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WOMAN:

AS SHE IS, AND AS SHE SHOULD BE.

VOL. I.

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I shall be led particularly to examine the natural station and duties of the Female Sex; its improvement, and the bounds which Nature herself has prescribed to the progress of that improvement; beyond which, every pretended advance will be a real degradation.-SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH, on the Law of Nature and Nations.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

JAMES COCHRANE AND CO.,

11, WATERLOO-PLACE.

MDCCCXXXV.

420.

PREFACE.

THE predominating influence of the female part of the human species over the interests of the species at large, is a phenomenon not less striking in itself than important as to its results; a phenomenon, that can scarcely fail to present the mind with a wide and serious subject for its contemplation.

Under its simpler bearings, such a subject has in it little that the most scrupulous could hold distasteful:—but as, in the pages that are to follow, a sort of rebellion is to be betrayed against the principle of female authority, and an unequivocal protest put forth against its continued exercise (founded upon a denial of the rights, and sometimes of the merits, of women, to exercise such a sway)-as such is the position we take up, and are to maintain, we

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