THE

SPECTATOR.

VOL. XII.

The SEVENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for J. TONSON in the Strand.

M DCC XXIV.

THE

SPECTATOR.

VOL. XII.

N° 433. Thursday, July 17. 1712.

Perlege Mæonio cantatas carmine Rands,|
Et frontem nugis folvere disce meis.

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Mart.

HE Moral World, as confifting of Males and Females, is of a mixt nature, and filled with feveral Cuftoms, Fashions and Ceremonies which would have no place in it, were there but One Sex. Had our Species noFemales in it, Men would be quite different Creatures from what they are at prefent; their Endeavours to please the oppofite Sex, polishes and refines them out of thofe Manners which are most