Well but, brother, you said, just now, that we were only, for pleasantry-sake, skimming over the surface of the argument; and that you had enough to say to silence all my opposition, were you to give the subject its due weight. I do assure you, that to silence all my opposition, you must have a vast deal more to say, than you have said hitherto; and yet you have thrown in some hints which stick with me, though you have concluded with some magni-ficent intimations of superiority over us Power and right to protect, travel, toil for us, and lay your trophies at our feet, and-so-forth Surely, surely, this is diminishing us, and exalting yourselves, by laying us under high obligations to your generosity. Pray, Sir, let us have, if you please, one or two intimations of those weightier arguments, that could, as you fancy, silence your Charlotte’s opposition. I say, that we women, were our education the same -^You know what I would be at Your weightier arguments, if you please or a specimen only eti passant.

Supposing, my Charlotte, that all human souls are, in themselves, equal; yet the very design of the different machines in which they are inclosed, is to superinduce a temporary difference on their original equality; a difference adapted to the dif-ferent purposes for which they are designed by Providence in the present transitory state. When those purposes are at an end, this difference will be at an end too. \Vhen sex ceases, inequality of souls will cease; and women will certainly be on a foot with men, as to intellectuals, in heaven. There indeed, will you no longer have lords over you; neither will you have admirers: which, in ijoiir present estimate of things, will perhaps balance the account In the mean time, if vou can see any occasions that may call for stronger understandings in male life, than in your own; you, at the same time, see an argument to acquiesce in a persuasion of a present inequality between the two sexes. You know, I have allowed exceptions. Will you, Charlotte, compliment yourself with being one?

Now, brother, I feel, methinks, that you are a little hard upon Charlotte: but, ladies, you see how the matter stands. You are all silent. But, Sir, you graciously allow, that there is a degree of knowledge which is very compatible with the du-ties of us women, and highly becoming us: Will you have the goodness to point out to us what this compatible learning is, that we may not mistake and so become eccentric, as I may say, burst our orb, and do more mischief than ever we could do good?