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JOHN YOUNG, ESQUIRE,

PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW,

MY DEAR SIR,

IN presenting you with a Memoir on the Life of our late excellent Friend, Mr Millar, I submit it to the person who, from long and familiar intercourse with him, will most readily perceive any misconceptions of his real character, or inaccuracies in the representation of his opinions,

I am fully aware of the difficulty of delineating a character such as Mr Millar's, and I am not insensible of the danger of failing in a species of composition in which some late writings have accustomed the Public to the union, in an uncommon degree, of Philosophy and Taste; but I could

not be deterred by any selfish regard to my own. reputation, from making that attempt, for which, in the opinion of our mutual friends, my intimacy with Mr Millar, begun by our near connection, and continued by his kind indulgence, had afforded me peculiar advantages.

I am, with the greatest regard,

MY DEAR SIR,

Your most obcdient Servant,

JOHN CRAIG.

GLASGOW, February, 1806,

SECT. I. The effects of Poverty and barbarism, with respect to the condition of women

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SECT. II. The influence acquired by the mother of a family, before marriage is completely established

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SECT. III. The refinement of the passions of sex, in the pastoral ages

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SECT. IV. The consequences of the introduction of agriculture, with respect to the intercourse of

the sexes

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SECT. V. Changes in the condition of women, arising from the improvement of useful arts and manufactures

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