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cation, and, justly.CONSEQUENCE,S;OF 'FHE HAREM EDUCATION. 317Under the system, thewomen become what the-yhaveheendepicted in Egypt, farouches et stupides, and to such beings isconfided the hope in the rising generation!The consequence is obvious:the young men must turn out into theworld with aIl the effects of homeeducationwith us ;-with gross propensities and vacant minds. But in regardto the rules and regulations of this institution, ifthey dive with an indecorousscrutiny into the minutire ofnature on the one hand, en the othercertainly due care is takenthat rash charges shaH not avaiJ, as in. somemighty important cases indeed, a complete jury, no fewer than twelvewitnesses, are required to give testimony to a point offact.In regard to, wi~nesses, toa, here isamost extraordinaryexception. "Idcirco ego inducttltrussummalu'P'I,in.domumJurtJbami, et excisurus; sumJurobamo min-­geutem cont~a'Parietem.~'Here( is a,denunciation.ln this country irisan act of infamy. The Romans adopted the principle of the. denun-.•\j;;;ciation; for when they stor'med a town they killed aH the dogs..ft liasbeeo atterripted to make out .an explanation of the extraordinary idea·there couveyed, by this route; but insurmouritable stumbling-blocks presentthemselves, and whatever road is taken this will not serve.Some·circumstancesshould induce it to be thought that the idea was confineditotheJine of Japhet, as now it is acted upon: but are the Per.sians- oftthis.gènealogy? And a mast particalar ordinance upon thesubject isan;article .of the Sadder. Thustoowe find, witl}, their Greek bretbren, the'warnifl.g, " ConJraSolemne meito~.~' 1.i'be mostancient 0,Ji: their didactics,the writingsofHesiod, relatealso,to this point. Snch things,induce the,surmise that the idea was anannexation~to the solarritual. Its,diffusionis a proof of its remote antiquity. A custOlJ.l established in contravention.totheordinary dictation and! process ofnature-for the opposition of instinctand mode is redprocal and complete, to tl~ercmotest undulationsof the great circle of mankind, to its extremest radii-for it pervaded