After considering the historic page, and viewing the living world with anxious solicitude, the most melancholy emotions of sorrowful indignation have depressed my spirits, and i have sighed when obliged to confess, that either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial. i have turned over various books written on the subject of education, and patiently observed the conduct of parents and the management of schools; but what has been the result? —a profound conviction that the neglected education of my fellow–creatures is the grand source of the misery i deplore; and that women, in particular, are rendered weak and wretched by a variety of conferring causes, originating from one hasty conclusion. the conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity. one cause of this barren blooming i attribute to a false system of education gathered from the books written on this subject by men who, considering females rather as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled by this specious homage, that the civilized women of the present century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inspire love, when they ought to cherish a nobler ambition, and by their abilities and virtue exact respect.
1.what ability does the author want for women?
a
to vote
b
to get an equal education
c
to be beautiful and delicate
d
to be women rather than human creatures
2.which philosophical approach does the author take in the passage, "a vindication of the rights of women"?
a
women are not suitable to be educated in the same ways as men.
b
women prefer to be objects of desirability rather than respected.
c
women are influenced to value their own attractiveness over their abilities and this is used as proof of their nature.
d
women are not educated properly because they are more interested in appearing desirable to men.