But we must not mind the wits; there was a time when they might have laughed at our present gymnastics.

All is habit: people have at last found out that the exposure is better than the concealment of the person, and now they laugh no more.

Evil only should be the subject of ridicule.
The first question is, whether women are able either wholly or partially to share in the employments of men.

And here we may be charged with inconsistency in making the proposal at all.

For we started originally with the division of labour; and the diversity of employments was based on the difference of natures.