【英文】Women-not-Inferior-to-Men.pdf

W O M A N Not I N F E R I O R to M A N: OR, A short and modest Vindication of the natural Right of the F A I R -S E X to a perfect Equality of Power, Dignity, and Esteem, with the Men. _______________________________________ By S O P H I A, A P E R S O N of Q U A L I T Y. _______________________________________ How hard is the Condition of our Sex, Thro evry State of Life the Slaves of Man! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wherefore are we Born with high Souls, but to assert ourselves, Shake off this wild Obedience they exact, And claim an equal Empire oer the World. R O W ES Fair Penitent. _______________________________________ L O N D O N: Printed for JOHN HAWKINS, at the Falcon in St Pauls Church-Yard. MDCCXXXIX. [ Price One Shilling. ] WOMAN not Inferior to MAN CHAP. I The INTRODUCTION. If a celebrated Author had not already told us, that there is nothing in Nature so much to be wondered at as THAT WE CAN WONDER AT ALL; it must appear to every one, who has but a degree of understanding above the idiot, a matter of the greatest surprise, to observe the universal prevalence of prejudice and custom in the minds of the Men. One might naturally expect to see those lordly creatures, as they modestly style themselves, everywhere jealous of superiority, and watchful to maintain it. Instead of which, if we except the tyrannical usurpation of authority they exert over us Women, we shall find them industrious in nothing but courting the