perseverance.-Accidents of her vital system opposed to reason- ing. Easy derangement of mental faculties.-Great exertion of these destructive of beauty, &c.-Character of female literature and science.-Unfitness of learned and philosophical ladies for natural duties.-Sphere of their accomplishments and natural duties.-Distinguished women neither the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.-Mrs. Wolstonecraft's error as to the degradation of woman.-Rousseau's observations on female cha- racter being dependent on education.-Queen Mary's remark on the wisdom of women.-That high intellect would insure the Woman's sense of what is fitting.-Her politeness.-Her Marriage among the inferior animals.-Hume's doctrine as to pire.-Error of Dionysius Halycarnassæus.-Dissolution of mar- this.-Error of education unfitting her.-Woman stoops to con- PART IV.-MATRIMONIAL SLAVERY, p. 147. Women every where slaves.—The women of savage nations.— added to imprisonment.-Case.-That cruelty may be worse than PART V.-INFIDELITY, p. 172. Borrowing of wives in Greece.-Opinions of Lycurgus.— classes. The evil of sexual infidelity to be judged only by its consequences.-1. In relation to the domestic affections.-His- tory of domestic infidelity in this respect.-Very different fate of the husband and the wife in consequence.--Happier results of new associations.-Natural liberty favourable to fidelity according to Plutarch, &c.-Temporary amours rarely dangerous.-Jealousy and persecution chiefly make them so.-Infidelity to be blamed as exciting jealousy.-May, in some cases, be blamable also on other accounts.- Happy effects of the absence of jealousy.-2. In relation to irregular progeny.-Temporary amours rarely pro- -Infidelity in England.-De Biron and the English lady.-The aristocracy of love in England, a branch of the general aristocracy. -English, French, and Italian love contrasted in this respect.- Boniface archbishop of Mentz, on English nuns.-Latimer on breach of wedlock in England.-Of other women similarly having a large vital system.-Causes and examples given by men in England. Infidelity in Germany.-Prussia.-Austria.-France. -Domestic relations in France.-Character and temperament of French women, by Moreau.-Their coldness and unfitness for love. Superficial views of Mr. Bulwer, &c.-Infidelity in Italy. -Early marriages necessary there.-Extensive and avowed infi- delity, the result of indissoluble marriage.--The cicisbeato and cavalieri serventi.-Infidelity systematized.-Durability of these engagements.-Advantages attending them.-Their example fol- lowed by strangers.-Comparison between the Italians and English in this respect, made in the "Istoria Critica dei Cava- lieri Serventi."-This comparison in favour of the Italians.— Blunder of Bonstetten on this subject.-Infidelity in Spain from the same cause, indissoluble marriage.-Spanish America.-Por- tugal. Portuguese Colonies.- Infidelity everywhere accompany- What constitutes marriage. Marriage by men incapable of |