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Mary Wollstonecraft a vindication of the rights of women.

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London, 1792. From the tyranny of man.

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I firmly believe the greater number of female follies proceed and the cunning which I allow makes it present a part of their character.

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I likewise have repeatedly endeavoured to prove is produced by oppression.

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We are not dissenters. For instance, a class of people with strict truth characterised as cunning.

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And may not I lay some stress on this fact to prove that when any power that reason kerbs the free spirit of man

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dissimulation is practised and the various shifts of art are naturally called forth great attention to decorum,

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which was carried to a degree of scrupulous ity and all that puerile bustle about trifles and consequential

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solemnity which Butler's caricature of a dissenter brings before the imagination shaped their persons,

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as well as their minds in the mould of prim literalness.

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I speak collectively for I know how many ornaments to human nature have been enrolled among secretaries.

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Yet I assert that the same narrow prejudice for their sect, which women have for their families, prevailed in the dissenting part of the community.

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However worthy in other respects. And also that the same timid prudence or headstrong efforts often disgrace to the exertions of both oppression,

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thus formed many of the features of their character perfectly to coincide with that of the oppressed half of mankind.

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For is it not notorious that dissenters were like women fond of deliberating together

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and asking advice of each other till by a complication of little contrivances,

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some little end was brought about a similar attention to preserve.

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Their reputation was conspicuous in the dissenting and female world and was produced by a similar cause.

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Asserting the rights which women in common with men ought to contend for.

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I have not attempted to accentuate their faults, but to prove them to be the natural consequence of their education and station in society.

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If so,

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it is reasonable to suppose that they will change their character and correct their vices and follies when they are allowed to be free in a physical,

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moral and civil sense. Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man.

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So she must grow more perfect when emancipated. Or justify the authority that chains such a weak be to her duty.

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If the latter, it will be expedient to open a fresh trade with Russia for whips,

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a present which a father should always make to his son in law on his wedding day.

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That her husband may keep his whole family in order by the same means and without any violation of justice Reine wielding the

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sceptre so master of his house because he is the only thing in it who has reason the divine into feasible earthly sovereignty,

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breathed into man by the master of the universe. Allowing this position.

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Women have not any inherent rights to claim, and by the same rule, the duties of varnish for rights and duties are inseparable.

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Be just then holy men of understanding and mark not more severely what women do amiss than the vicious

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tricks of the horse or the ass for whom you provide provender and allow her the privileges of ignorance,

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to whom you deny the rights of reason, or you will be worse than Egyptian task masters expecting virtue where nature has not given understanding.