could exercise the slightest patience towards men tailors. The needle and sword ought not to be managed by the same hands. In his _Emile_, he says, "If I were sovereign, I would not permit sewing and the occupations of the needle to any but women and lame men." [Footnote 1: See Phil. Dic. Vol. 6, Art. Woman.] [Footnote 2: Richerand's Physiology. Chapman and Goodman's Edition: p. 381.] Occupation produces a mighty influence on character. Women in all countries will talk about their dresses and domestic matters: Men talk of war, politics, horse-racing, field sports, and the labors of the farm. At a very early period of life, we find the boy delighting in his top, his bow and arrows, and his mimic wagon or cart. The girl finds most pleasure in dolls, in pretty dresses and glittering toys, which amuse her without much exertion on her part. "With what a languid yawn," says Mary Woolstoncraft in her Rights of Woman, "have I seen an admirable poem thrown down, that a man of true taste returns to again and again with rapture; and whilst melody has almost suspended respiration, a lady has asked me where I bought my gown." And whilst the men converse about business, politics or literature, "how naturally," says Swift, "do women apply their hands to each other's lappets and ruffles." The learned lady whom I have just referred to, might have saved herself a great deal of vexation and pretended mortification, if she had only reflected, that difference in occupation between the sexes is due principally to difference in physical organization; and that the conversation of men and women will always run more or less upon their occupations. Our very dreams are but too frequently dictated by the occupations which engage us. Queen Mab gallops "Through lover's brains, and then they dream of love; On courtier's knees, that dream on court'sies straight; O'er lawyer's fingers, who straight dream on fees. And sometimes comes she with a tithe pig's tail, Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep-- Then dreams he of another benefice: Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats; Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades; Of healths five fathoms deep: and then anon Drums in his ear--at which he starts and wakes; And being thus frighten'd, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again." _Relative Position of the Sexes in Society_.