ought to be removed to other ſchools, and receive inſtruction, in ſome meaſure appropriated to the deſtination of each individual, the two ſexes being ſtill together in the morning; but in the afternoon, the girls ſhould attend a ſchool, where plain-work, mantua-making, millinery, &c. would be their employment.
The young people of ſuperiour abilities, or fortune, might now be taught in another ſchool, the dead and living languages, the elements of ſcience, and continue the ſtudy of hiſtory and politics, on a more extenſive ſcale, which would not exclude polite literature.
Girls and boys ſtill together? I hear ſome readers aſk: yes. And I ſhould not fear any other conſequence than that ſome early attachment might take place; which, whilſt it had the beſt effect on the moral character of the young people, might not perfectly agree with the views of the parents, for it will be a long time, I fear, before the world is ſo enlightened that parents, only anxious to render their children virtuous, will let them chooſe companions for life themſelves.
Beſides, this would be a ſure way to promote early marriages, and from early marriages the moſt ſalutary phyſical and moral effects naturally flow. What a different character does a married citizen aſſume from the ſelfiſh coxcomb, who lives, but for himſelf, and who is often afraid to marry leſt he ſhould not be able to live in a certain ſtyle. Great emergencies excepted, which would rarely occur in a ſociety of which equality was the baſis, a man could only be prepared to diſcharge the duties of public life, by the habitu-
