Chapter V
Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women
Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt
The opinions speciously supported, in some modern publications on
the female character and education, which have given the tone to
most of the observations made, in a more cursory manner, on the
sex, remain now to be examined.
Section I
I shall begin with Rousseau, and give a sketch
of his character of woman, in his own words, interspersing
comments and reflections. My comments, it is true, will all
spring from a few simple principles, and might have been deduced
from what I have already said; but the artificial structure has
been raised with so much ingenuity, that it seems necessary to
attack it in a more circumstantial manner, and make the
application myself.
