As for we women, we can but in our weakness groan under
this tyranny. Our protest, joined to that of reason and experience, avails
little. Our wise innovators have a great deal more wit than we have; but
it is not a wit of which we would be ambitious : for it serves them no
better, than under the pretence of saving to be paid for destroying :
at least it is not unfrequently so.
OBJECTION the Ninth
OPINION often makes a stronger
impression on us than truth. Whatever you may say to the contrary, the
imagination will prevail of life, being safer in the hands of a man than
of a woman. For, in short, of what importance can a woman be, who, after
all, is but a woman? This is so true, that most of our women now a-days
will have a man-midwife, some through prejudice, others through good economy,
because if there are any prescriptions necessary for the patient, the
man-midwife, who is also stiled the doctor, will write for them; whereas,
if there is a midwife, a physi-
