If they mean that some men are superior to some women, that is no great discovery. Had they turned the tables they would have found that some women are superior to some men. Or, had they remembered their Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, they might have known that one woman is superior to all the men in the Kingdom, or else they have sworn to very little purpose, and it must not be supposed that their Reason and Religion would suffer them to take Oaths contrary to the Law of Nature and the Reason of Things.” “That the Custom of the World has put women, generally speaking, into a state of subjection, is not denied; but the right can be no more proved by the fact than the predominance of vice can justify it. They say that Scripture shows that women were in a state of subjection. So were the Jews, under the Chaldeans; and the Christians under the Romans. Were they necessarily inferior? That ingenious theorist, Mr. Whiston, argues, ‘that before the Fall woman was the superior.’ Woman is put into the World to serve God. The service she owes a man at any time is only a business by-the-bye, just as it may be any man’s business to keep hogs. He was not made for this, but if he hires himself out to such an employment, he ought conscientiously to perform it.... We do not find any man think any the worse of his understanding because another has more physical power, or conclude himself less capable for any post because he has not been preferred to it.... If all men are born Free, how are all women born slaves? Not Milton himself would cry up Liberty for Female Slaves, or plead the Lawfulness of resisting a private Tyranny.... If mere power gives a right to rule, there can be no such thing as Usurpation, but a Highwayman, so long as he has Strength to force, has also a right to command our obedience. Strength of mind goes along with Strength of body, and ’tis only for some odd accidents, which philosophers have not yet thought worth while to inquire into, that the sturdiest porter is not also the wisest man.... Sense is a portion that God has been pleased to distribute to both sexes with an impartial hand; but learning is what men have engrossed to themselves, and one cannot but admire their improvements.” She winds up with another Eulogy on the good Queen Anne. But society did not then reform itself upon her suggestions.