[403] This person was a Mr. M. Lewis whose Grammar and whose Rules for Pointing and Reading Grammatically she used in her school.
[404] The Woman as Good as the Man, p. 6.
[405] The Woman as Good as the Man, p. 124.
[406] Ibid., p. 45.
[407] From Instructions to a Young Princess on this point we read: "I only desire you to believe, that true Wisdom consists in knowing exactly your Duty; and whatsoever carries a Woman farther than that, is generally either dangerous or unprofitable. For, to be plain, how doth it concern you, to know, whether the Sun or the Earth move, or after what manner Thunder and Tempest are form'd in the Skies, and a Hundred other Things as little necessary as these?"
[408] Smith, Florence: Mary Astell. First full presentation of the life and works of Mary Astell.
[409] Smith, Florence: Mary Astell, p. 99.
[410] Reflections on Marriage, p. 29. Quoted in Miss Smith's Mary Astell, p. 89.
[411] Smith, Florence: Mary Astell, p. 22.
[412] Smith, Florence: Mary Astell, p. 70.