Chap.

  1    1|     unless freedom strengthen her reason till she comprehend her
  2    1|      partake with him the gift of reason?~ ~ In this style, argue
  3    1|       they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that
  4    1|           which is not founded on reason? If indeed this be their
  5    1|       arguments may be drawn from reason: and thus augustly supported,
  6    1|     inconsistency, that they want reason - else this flaw in your
  7    1|      tricks, the orderly plans of reason which rise above their comprehension.~ ~
  8    1|           it be fully proved that reason calls for this respect,
  9  Int|         species, when improveable reason is allowed to be the dignified
 10  Int|          bugbear: there is little reason to fear that women will
 11    1|           less than the whole; in Reason.~ ~ What acquirement exalts
 12    1|        estimated by the degree of reason, virtue, and knowledge,
 13    1|         that from the exercise of reason, knowledge and virtue naturally
 14    1|           prejudices have clouded reason, and such spurious qualities
 15    1|           to pursue the course of reason as it has been perplexed
 16    1|     general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, which
 17    1|           will never be forced by reason; yet to urge prescription
 18    1|       steal the celestial fire of reason; and the vengeance of heaven,
 19    1|        passions should unfold our reason, because he could see that
 20    1|         maxim deduced from simple reason, raises an outcry - the
 21    1|          without exercising their reason, become dead weights of
 22    1|           through the exertion of reason, the overthrow of arbitrary
 23    2|            Men complain, and with reason, of the follies and caprices
 24    2|           to stop the progress of reason in both sexes, for if men
 25    2|            but I have added, your reason is now gaining strength,
 26    2|          of learning to think and reason.~ ~ To prevent any misconstruction,
 27    2|           the exercise of its own reason; for if but one being was
 28    2|           the exercise of its own reason. This was Rousseau's opinion
 29    2|        and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real
 30    2|       solid virtue.~ ~ Though, to reason on Rousseau's ground, if
 31    2|      never brought to the test of reason? prevents their generalizing
 32    2|      sensation will give place to reason.~ ~ * Similar feelings has
 33    2|           see not the shadow of a reason to conclude that their virtues
 34    2|            I must therefore, if I reason consequentially, as strenuously
 35    2|        the heart. To endeavour to reason love out of the world, would
 36    2|          them pleasing.~ ~ Let me reason with the supporters of this
 37    2|          take place of choice and reason, is, in some degree, felt
 38    2|            I think we should have reason to complain that love, infantine
 39    2|          in fact, the language of reason, the morality of life; and
 40    2|     honest heart shew itself, and reason teach passion to submit
 41    2|           alive at the expence of reason.~ ~ I own it frequently
 42    2|           those deduced from pure reason, which apply to the whole
 43    2|         ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.~ ~
 44    2|         allowed to fix the eye of reason on a perfect model. They
 45    2|           to have the free use of reason, nor would he recommend
 46    2|       never to exercise their own reason, never to be independent,
 47    2|       impress by declamation when Reason offers her sober light,
 48    2|          who are dependent on the reason of man, when they associate
 49    2|           only have the rank that reason assigned her, and arts could
 50    2|           to dare to exert my own reason, till, becoming dependent
 51    2|     extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands
 52    2|         then the submission is to reason, and not to man. In fact,
 53    2|         the operations of its own reason; or on what foundation rests
 54    2|    reverence that is an insult to reason? China is not the only country
 55    3|        genius; women observe, men reason: from the concurrence of
 56    3|        body be, with some shew of reason, the boast of men, why are
 57    3|      deduced from the exercise of reason; but in obtaining it, to
 58    3|          respectable authority to reason.*~ ~ * 'A respectable old
 59    3|         the severer principles of reason and philosophy, we breed
 60    3|           been accustomed to make reason give way to his desire of
 61    3|     evidently lose the rank which reason would assign them, and they
 62    3|        that of animals - if their reason does not afford sufficient
 63    3|    pointing out some irrefragable reason for thus making such a large
 64    3|           the stamp of the warped reason of man - the homage of passion.
 65    3|          bodily strength; and his reason is clouded by these crude
 66    3|           form no conception; but reason tells me that they cannot
 67    3|            As they submit without reason, they will, having no fixed
 68    3|           as can be expected when reason is taken at second hand,
 69    3|    husband to supply the place of reason? A rational man, for we
 70    3|         of a seat on the bench of reason.~ ~ It does not require
 71    3|           bow to the authority of reason, instead of being the modest
 72    3|          common acquirements? The reason appears to me clear, the
 73    4|           perfectibility of human reason; for, were man created perfect,
 74    4|          immortality of the soul. Reason is, consequentially, the
 75    4|        another; but the nature of reason must be the same in all,
 76    4|           the exercise of its own reason?* Yet outwardly ornamented
 77    4|       ever placed between her and reason, she is always represented
 78    4|       inquiry is whether she have reason or not. If she have, which,
 79    4|         tell us; but virtue, says reason, must be acquired by rough
 80    4|           retards the progress of reason. The grand source of female
 81    4|     rights, which the exercise of reason might have procured them,
 82    4|          with the calm dignity of reason above opinion, dared to
 83    4|           the affections and nips reason in the bud.~ ~ The passions
 84    4|           distinction so fatal to reason and virtue.~ ~ A king is
 85    4|          shows;~ ~ 'Authority and Reason on her wait.'~ ~And all
 86    4|         feeling, when they should reason, their conduct is unstable,
 87    4|        fleeting passion, to which reason has never given any specific
 88    4|    acquire the noble privilege of reason, the power of discerning
 89    4|       created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power
 90    4|        neglecting the duties that reason alone points out, and shrinking
 91    4|    serious danger. In the name of reason, and even common sense,
 92    4|         by the light of their own reason. 'Educate women like men,'
 93    4|         compared; man was made to reason, woman to feel: and that
 94    4|        whole, by blending happily reason and sensibility into one
 95    4|         towards the attainment of reason in the next; so that through
 96    4|      power given him of attaining reason in his first mode of existence.~ ~
 97    4|          business of life, though reason were insulted. Yet, and
 98    4|          be allowed to infer that reason is absolutely necessary
 99    4|           that sensibility is not reason.~ ~ * The mass of mankind
100    4|       increased at the expence of reason, and even the imagination,
101    4|        dependent on, not only the reason, but the bounty of their
102    4|       upon a par, with respect to reason and humanity; and changing
103    4|           self is the centre, and reason might have taught her not
104    4|     supinely dependent on man for reason, when she ought to mount
105    4|     present gratification, is the reason why so many fond mothers
106    4|           the sober steady eye of reason; a plan of conduct equally
107    4|    brought forward with a shew of reason, because supposed to be
108    4|   alluding to the early proofs of reason, as well as genius, in Cowley,
109    4|     twenty. I apprehend that they reason on false ground, led astray
110    4|           vivacity gives place to reason, and to that majestic seriousness
111    4|      brought nearer to nature and reason, and become more virtuous
112    4|      venture to assert that their reason will never acquire sufficient
113    4|       person; and this may be one reason why some gentle wives have
114    5|         could not believe what my reason told me was derogatory to
115    5|         call this a suggestion of reason, instead of resting my weakness
116    5|         without us.'~ ~ 'For this reason, the education of the women
117    5|    industry. Hence we have a good reason for the first lessons that
118    5|       disturbed the operations of reason, else he would not have
119    5|          authority independent of reason; and to prepare them for
120    5|        are the sober offspring of reason; but when sensibility is
121    5|         beauty.'~ ~ 'For the same reason,' adds Rousseau, 'women
122    5|        authority, or moderated by reason.~ ~ 'There results,' he
123    5|        temper is the cool work of reason, when, as life advances,
124    5|        always bring a man back to reason, at least if he be not absolutely
125    5|           Perhaps the mildness of reason might sometimes have this
126    5|          of man extends. For what reason or virtue can be expected
127    5|        activity, and for the same reason. A man speaks of what he
128    5|      females: it is for this very reason, I would begin to speak
129    5|    subject as long as they lived. Reason in women is a practical
130    5|           in women is a practical reason, capacitating them artfully
131    5|    religion should, for that very reason, be subject to authority.
132    5|        exclusive appropriation of reason? The rights of humanity
133    5|           at hand to lend her his reason? - when they both together
134    5|        and perchance his abstract reason, that should concentrate
135    5|  scattered beams of her practical reason, may be employed in judging
136    5|          those of love in that of reason.'~ ~ I shall close my extracts
137    5|        virtuous and constant when reason is neither allowed to be
138    5|           whilst dreaming that we reason, erroneous conclusions are
139    5|          laugh at the severity of reason. - Yet, alas! even then
140    5|         of being supported by the reason and virtue of their fathers
141    5|        chance to bring back their reason to its natural dependent
142    5|            though for a different reason, a small expression of kindness
143    5|        have supposed for the same reason.~ ~ Why are girls to be
144    5|           exalt his mistress; his reason is the bubble of his passion,
145    5|          human character, neither reason nor passion in this domestic
146    5|   obtained by virtue supported by reason. It is respect for the understanding
147    5|           naturally to depend for reason and support, have all an
148    5|        behaviour, than to set the reason to work; but, when the mind
149    5|          motives of action, which reason and religion equally combine
150    5|           being the younger born, reason together, and learn to submit
151    5|        submit to the authority of reason - when her voice is distinctly
152    5|        order of things.~ ~ Whilst reason raises man above the brutal
153    5|        others. Thus degraded, her reason, her misty reason! is employed
154    5|   degraded, her reason, her misty reason! is employed rather to burnish
155    5|        should know, that insulted reason alone can spread that sacred
156    5|      afraid lest the austerity of reason should disturb the soft
157    5|         entirely dependent on his reason and bounty; he did not want
158    5|      sacred task. He denies woman reason, shuts her out from knowledge,
159    5|   rhapsodist, 'to women, that his reason disputes with them the empire,
160    5|       parental authority supplant reason. For every where does she
161    5|       education that thus insults reason and nature?~ ~ Many similar
162    5|         an arrogant assumption of reason; but I contend that it was
163    5|        declamation, and I mean to reason with those worldly-wise
164    5|         should be brought home to reason.~ ~ Suppose, for instance,
165    5|          it should seem, that one reason why men have superiour judgment,
166    5|        the exercise of their own* reason they fix on some stable
167    5|          nature, in proportion as reason is illuminated and exalted
168    5|         though we be convinced by reason that their present and most
169    5|          but selfish prudence and reason just rising above instinct?
170    5|       alike, unless the unfledged reason of the former never attempted
171    5|          by humanity and armed by reason, be is superciliously asked
172    5|    therefore were founded on some reason; yet not unfrequently, of
173    5|      venerable aspect, though the reason on which they were built
174    5|         were built ceases to be a reason, or cannot be traced. Why
175    5|          for which we can give no reason; for the moment a reason
176    5|          reason; for the moment a reason can be given for an opinion,
177    5|      cherish opinions only to set reason at defiance? This mode of
178    5|         vulgarly termed a woman's reason. For women sometimes declare
179    5|          it may be inferred, that reason has whispered some doubts,
180    5|           the clear conviction of reason than the impulse of the
181    5|           unless it be founded on reason. If it be merely the refuge
182    6|           it how little power can reason obtain! These fine intractable
183    6|         seldom be disentangled by reason. One idea calls up another,
184    6|  associations that do violence to reason. But females, who are made
185    6|         find strength to recur to reason and rise superiour to a
186    6|       they be not allowed to have reason sufficient to govern their
187    6|           the uncontrouled use of reason. When do men fall-in-love
188    6|    authority, without deigning to reason; and it may also be easily
189    6|           sounds of the charmer - reason, charm he never so wisely.
190    6|        For it is the right use of reason alone which makes us independent
191    6|           excepting the unclouded Reason - 'Whose service is perfect
192    7|      offspring of sensibility and reason! - true delicacy of mind! -
193    7|        the language of persuasive reason, till I rouse my sex from
194    7|         ignorance. The reserve of reason, which, like habitual cleanliness,
195    7|          have most improved their reason must have the most modesty -
196    7|         Nay, from experience, and reason, I should be led to expect
197    7|     weaker shoulders, contrary to reason and true modesty, which,
198    7|           her own weak head, when reason wakes. For where art thou
199    7|        ought to have directed thy reason, and supported thy weakness,
200    7|         the slow, orderly walk of reason. So great in reality is
201    7|        exertions, there is little reason to expect that modesty will
202    7|          brutal when unchecked by reason: but the obligation to check
203    7|       modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with
204    8|         virtue of a being to whom reason has been denied. But, even
205    8|          to himself, the shews of reason that have led others astray,
206    8|     astray, rejoiced to find some reason in all the errors of man;
207    8|      heated by the passions which reason laboured to tame.~ ~ The
208    9|        vigour to the exertions of reason which only the heart can
209    9|          indirectly to deny woman reason? for a gift is a mockery,
210    9|        that man may lend them his reason to guide their tottering
211    9|          drawn by the exercise of reason on the blank cheeks, which
212    9|          mothers, by religion and reason, I cannot help lamenting
213   10|          have cause to tremble if reason were to become the rule
214   10|       insist on, they do not fear reason, or dread the sifting of
215   10|         running from the light of reason, as if it were a firebrand;
216   10|           on earth together. Yet, reason seems to say, that they
217   10|        moment. It is this want of reason in their affections which
218   11| prescription always take place of reason, and to place every duty
219   11|          shook, even when matured reason convinces the child that
220   11|       submission to any power but reason.~ ~ * Dr. Johnson makes
221   11|           animal world, that only reason can give. This is the parental
222   11|          the direction of his own reason.~ ~ I have already very
223   11|          guard to you whilst your reason is unfolding; but when your
224   11|         respect for decorum, than reason; and thus taught slavishly
225   11|         first faint glimmering of reason, rendering at the same time
226   11|         of exercised sympathy and reason, and not the over-weening
227   11|     taught too early to submit to reason, the true definition of
228   11|     defining it; for to submit to reason is to submit to the nature
229   11|          I grant, to command than reason; but it does not follow
230   11|    children cannot comprehend the reason why they are made to do
231   11|     supposed almost distinct from reason, may be found more nearly
232   11|         without doing violence to reason?~ ~ After observing sallies
233   11|    allowance weakens the force of reason in their minds, and makes
234   11|          the first affection, and reason made the foundation of the
235   11|         bear the investigation of reason.~ ~
236   12|           if it were for no other reason than the unsettled state
237   12|       face of truth; but let more reason and virtue prevail in society,
238   12|       more under the direction of reason. In youth, the fondest friendships
239   12|         both sexes are founded on reason; and, till the affections
240   12|      nation* then try what effect reason would have to bring them
241   12|          that rough and repulsing reason, which always finds in indifference
242   12|        some plan; and any plan of reason may be seen through much
243   12|      delicacy, by the exertion of reason, they will look for both
244   12|         light I view the subject, reason and experience convince
245   12|          the patient fortitude of reason might have prevented.~ ~
246   13|   peculiar to women: sins against reason of commission as well as
247   13|    inquiries, however contrary to reason, could not be reckoned impious. -
248   13|       word, it would be absurd to reason with you on the egregious
249   13|        conformity to the light of reason? or, do they effect these
250   13|         not conform to the law of reason, and earn a subsistence
251   13|          appears evident to sober reason, that certain vices produce
252   13|          wounds but to heal, says reason, and our irregularities
253   13|         his works, and in our own reason, that I could sooner believe
254   13|      ornaments, and for that very reason I should guard girls against
255   13|         from the light of her own reason, is as absurd as cruel;
256   13|       sexual attachment, and that reason must cement friendship;
257   13|          violation of justice and reason, in the treatment of children,
258   13|           children, weakens their reason. And, so early do they catch
259   13|         bring the subject home to reason - to that sluggish reason,
260   13|         reason - to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions
261   13|        any authority, but that of reason.~ ~ To render women truly
262   13|           that when any power but reason curbs the free spirit of
263   13|          only being in it who has reason: - the divine, indefeasible
264   13|        whom ye deny the rights of reason, or ye will be worse than