Far be it from her to stir up Sedition of any sort: none can abhor it more; and she heartily wishes, that our Masters would pay their Civil and Ecclesiastical Governors the same Submission, which they themselves exact from their Domestick Subjects. Nor can she imagine how she any way undermines the Masculine Empire, or blows the Trumpet of Rebellion to the Moiety of Mankind. Is it by exhorting Women, not to expect to have their own Will in any thing, but to be intirely Submissive, when once they have made Choice of a Lord and Master, though he happen not to be so wise, so kind, or even so just a Governor as was expected? She did not, indeed, advise them to think his Folly Wisdom, nor his Brutality, that Love and Worship he promised in his Matrimonial Oath; for this required a Flight of Wit and Sense much above her poor Ability, and proper only to Masculine Understandings. However, she did not in any manner prompt them to Resist, or to Abdicate the Perjur’d Spouse, though the Laws of _GOD_, and the Land, make Special Provision for it, in a Case, wherein, as is to be fear’d, few Men can truly plead Not Guilty. ’Tis true, through want of Learning, and of that Superior Genius which Men, as Men, lay claim to, she was ignorant of the _Natural Inferiority_ of our Sex, which our Masters lay down as a Self-evident and Fundamental Truth. She saw nothing in the Reason of Things, to make this either a Principle or a Conclusion, but much to the contrary; it being Sedition at least, if not Treason, to assert it in this Reign. For if by the Natural Superiority of their Sex, they mean, that _every_ Man is by Nature superior to _every_ Woman, which is the obvious Meaning, and that which must be stuck to if they would speak Sense, it would be a Sin in _any_ Woman, to have Dominion over _any_ Man, and the greatest Queen ought not to command, but to obey, her Footman: because no Municipal Laws can supersede or change the Law of Nature: So that if the Dominion of the Men be such, the _Salique Law_, as unjust as _English Men_ have ever thought it, ought to take Place over all the Earth, and the most glorious Reigns in the _English_, _Danish_, _Castilian_, and other Annals, were wicked Violations of the Law of Nature! If they mean that _some_ Men are superior to _some_ Women, this is no great Discovery; had they turn’d the Tables, they might have seen that _some_ Women are superior to _some_ Men. Or had they been pleased to remember their Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, they might have known, that _One_ Woman is superior to _All_ the Men in these Nations, or else they have sworn to very little Purpose. And it must not be suppos’d, that their Reason and Religion would suffer them to take Oaths, contrary to the Law of Nature and Reason of Things.