TO
M. TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD,
LATE BISHOP OF AUTUN.
SIR,
Having read with great pleaſure a pamphlet, which you have lately publiſhed, on National Education, I dedicate this volume to you the—firſt dedication that I have ever written, to induce you to read it with attention; and, becauſe I think that you will underſtand me, which I do not ſuppoſe many pert witlings will, who may ridicule the arguments they are unable to anſwer. But, Sir, I carry my reſpect for your underſtanding ſtill farther; ſo far, that I am confident you will not throw my work aſide, and haſtily conclude that I am in the wrong, becauſe you did not view the ſubject in the ſame light yourſelf. And, pardon my frankneſs, but I muſt obſerve, that you treated it in too curſory a manner, contented to conſider it as it had been conſidered formerly, when the rights of man, not to advert to woman, were trampled on as chimerical—I call upon you, therefore, now
