heroines renewed, and the deadly weapon directed by the hand of Beauty.

THIS idea of hers is undoubtedly a most ingenious one. At the fight of a band of heroines, beautiful as the morning, marching forward to the combat, what warrior's fword would not drop from his hand?-what foldier would not furrender himself a prisoner!

HAD the God RAMA, when he led forth his army of APES, and fpread deftruction among his enemies, only exchanged his apes for beautiful virgins, his victory would have been lefs bloody, and his conqueft more complete.

As a neceffary preparative for the fupport of bodily fatigue, the female philof opher recommends an early initiation of females into the athletic fports, and gymnaftic exercifes of boys and young

men.

SHE Would have them run, leap, box, wrestle, fence and fight, that the united

exertion of bodily and mental energy may produce, by myfterious cooperation, that amazing force of character, of which she supposes her sex to be capable,

SHE even recommends that these sports should be mutually shared between girls and boys, that the diftinction of sex may remain concealed, until the physical pro. grefs of the body, calling into operation the latent paffions, fhall discover the wonderful fecret.

THIS ftrange philofopher, my dear El Haffan, has detained me, by the novelty of her doctrines, longer than I intended. Perhaps in fome future communication,

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may notice fome of her remaining tenets; and I intend particularly to delineate the practical influence, which they have already acquired over the female fex in this country.

KEEP this philosophy a profound fecret from the fair daughters of Hinduftan, for, thou canst not divine what in

fluence its novelty, and the idea of independence on man may have over the heart even of the modeft, unaffuming Hindu.

SALUTATION to the great GANESA.

Letter Third.

DEAR EL HASSAN, FRIEND OF MY HEART,

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HAVE not yet detailed all the paradoxes of the female philofopher, to whose acquaintance I have lately introduced thee.

I HAVE before faid that fhe ridicules. the idea of female modefty. To prove that her energies are not cramped by fo embarraffing a reftraint, fhe writes with the most disgusting coarfenefs, upon fubjects, which are ftudiously excluded from modeft focieties, and referved by common confent, for the investigation of men of science.

SHE even informs the world, that the has been prefent at anatomical, chirurgical and obstetrick lectures, conversations and experiments, where the various parts of the human body have been diffected, and their ufes defcanted upon; and all

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this fhe has witneffed, without a blufh, and without a painful emotion. She does not doubt, that every female may, in the fame manner, free herfelf from the factitious weakness of education, and acquire that hardihood of character, which fhall forever free her from the unphilofophical habit of blushing.

WITH the utmost indifference, fhe enters upon a difquifition concerning the causes of the greater number of women than of men in Africa, calmly afcribing the fact to polygamy, which, she says, enervates the phyfical energies of the men, and thereby incapacitates them from becoming the fathers of fo many fons, as they otherwise would; for, fhe affumes it as a principle, that the fex of an animal is determined, by the predominant. energy of one parent over that of the other, nature delighting, univerfally, to produce its own image.

POLYGAMY, thus, according to her theory, wherever it is already established, produces an excefs of women; and each