He believes that he has not less deserved thanks for having shown that man has erred from this natural principle, and has inflicted suffering both on himself and woman, by nearly all his laws as to the sexes, which have been dictated by selfish feeling and a slender share of erring reason, and not by this more natural, more safe, and more generous social sentiment.

Rendering, then, all the homage and worship due to woman, and participating perhaps in the hallucination which he has described, he trusts to receive her approval; and he cares not a straw for the outcry of

those of his own sex whom cant and cowardice lead to oppress her.

With this work, he closes the series in which anthropology is applied to the sexes, and of which the first was that entitled BEAUTY, the second was INTERMARRIAGE, and the third is this, which regards the MORAL RELATIONS OF THE SEXES. With this, he bids farewell to the subject; and must henceforth devote himself to severer duties.

He has endeavoured, in this work, to profit by most of the good writers on the subject; and he has thought that he could not render the reader a greater service than by giving, in particular, an abridged and arranged view of Milton's doctrine of divorce.-He has no objection, however, that the general originality of his work should be tried by a comparison with any work of the day.

The matters in it which he supposes to be original, are the following:

1. The proving that there is a vast difference between the brain and mind of man, and the brain and

mind of woman-a sexual difference, not by a comparison of the heads of adults, in which education and accident may be supposed to have effected this, but by a comparison of those of twins soon after birth, in which the difference of sex can alone have acted;

2. The showing that the sex of mind originates more especially in the vast superiority of sensibility in woman;

3. The explanation why woman sometimes more quickly understands many reasoned statements than man does ;

4. The proving that the natural inferiority of intellect in woman is compensated by a vast superiority in instinct;

5. The explanation of the nature and species of instinct, showing that there is no mystery in any of these, as mystics and impostors pretend;

6. The pointing out the relations of consciousness and volition;

7. The showing how conscious, reasoned and voluntary action becomes instinctive ;

8. The pointing out the importance of the acquisition of new instinctive habits;

9. The showing that the superiority of instinct in woman is connected with the greater developement of her vital system, and essential thereto;

10. The further showing that love, impregnation, gestation, parturition, lactation, and nursing (the principal acts of woman's life,) being almost entirely instinctive, and all the other acts of woman, being in close connexion and sympathy with these (being either powerfully modified or absolutely created by her in.

stinctive vital system,)—these, as well as her whole moral system, are more or less instinctive;

11. The pointing out that her mental system has no power to rise above the instinctive influence of her vital system, but on the contrary contributes to aid it;

12. The further pointing out that, on this superiority of instinct, depend her tact, promptitude, &c. -as well as the strange notions about her mind, soul, future life, &c.;

13. The showing how this superiority of instinct affects all her other mental operations;

14. The pointing out that on the smaller cerebel of woman depends not only (as I have elsewhere shown) her feebler volition, but her feebler capability of attention and her muscular weakness.

15. The showing that from all this and the varying states of her vital system, result woman's incapability of reasoning-generalizing, forming trains of connected ideas, judging, persevering, as well as her greater tendency to insanity;

16. The proving not merely that the power of rea. soning is incompatible with the organization of woman, but that great mental exertion is injurious to her, and that a vast mental superiority would ensure her suffering and misery;

17. The showing that woman's perception of what is fitting, her politeness, her vanity, her affections, her sentiments, her dependence on and knowledge of man, her love, her artifice, her caprice, being chiefly instinc. tive, reach the highest degree of perfection; whereas her friendship, her philanthropy, her patriotism and her politics, requiring the exercise of reason, are so feeble as to be worthless;

18. The explanation of the consequences of female representation;

19. The illustration of female sovereignty in the character of Queen Elizabeth;

20. The proving that monogamy is a natural institution as to the human race;

21. The showing that the indissolubility of mar. riage is not justified by any physical changes taking place in woman after marriage;

22. The further showing that even the duration of marriage for a time is justified chiefly by gestation, parturition, lactation and the cares that the child requires reducing the woman to dependence on her hus. band, and by the other cares it may subsequently require from both.

23. The pointing out that the duration of marriage or the expediency of divorce has been obscured by neglect of analytical examination;

24. The showing that the consideration of children in relation to divorce can affect only the cases in which they exist;

25. The suggestion that divorce or repudiation where children exist, ought not to be permitted until the children have attained such age that they cannot materially suffer by the separation of those who have produced them;

26. The more correct appreciation of the offence committed by both parties in adultery;

27. The establishment of the truth that the vitiation of offspring by the woman must not be supposed, but proved;

28. The pointing out the absurdity of divorce being

made unattainable without legal offence, and of offence setting the parties free;

29. The pointing out the reasonableness of mar. riage being the great object of woman's early life; 30. The showing how clothing becomes a natural duty of woman;

31. The showing how cooking becomes a natural duty of woman ;

32. The proving that woman is almost every where a slave; and that she is especially so in England;

33. The further proving that legislation as to women in England, so far as relates to fortune, is a scheme of mean and dastardly robbery;

34. The showing that woman, not merely in consequence of her more developed vital and reproductive system, rendering love more necessary to her than to man, and in consequence of man's infidelity and her privation, but in consequence of her subjection to a state of slavery in regard to property, person and progeny, is herself driven to extensive infidelity;

35. The pointing out that man has no power to prevent this while his conduct is such as it is, and while woman excels him in senses and observing faculties;

36. The showing that, in the practice of love, the chief difference among nations is its avowal among some, and its concealment among others,-dependent on their having, with a larger vital system, greater observing faculties.

37. The furnishing the test, that the degree of the developement of the glandular and secreting system, always shows among which nations sexual wants and sexual errors most prevail;