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not act thus in the common affairs of life. We do not neglect
to insure our houses, furniture, &c. though we may have lived fifty
years in the world, without being alarmed by fire. Having seen or heard
of one at a distance, we are promted to the exercise of caution, not knowing
how soon WE may be visited with such a disaster. Let the same conduct
be pursued by all who employ men-midwives, and we shall not hear
of so much mischief being done by their needless instruments; nor of their
behaving so indecently as many of them have done.
Those pusillanimous husbands who feel themselves overborne by custom,
and cannot muster up resolution enough to protect their wives' persons from
injury and insult, may be compared to a captain who quits the ship (whereof
he is the sole owner) out of compliment to his pilot. Moreover, if wives
be better satisfied with the liberties which men- |
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