As the World Turns

Introduction: If only to attack so fair and favorite a Part of human Society, as you are, will seem a confident attempt; it will appear a muscle builder one, to lay at your Feet, for Approbation, the very Instrument of your Pain, still warm and reeking from the wound it has given you. Methinks I see some pretty Lady pouting with Indignation so amiable that a Man would, almost for the sake of beholding, purposely study to pique her. What says the charming, peevish Thing, is not striking at our honor in every tender part, an injury great enough, unless the Aggressor insult us with the very weapons which has just executed his cruel purpose? Must we not only feel the barbarous Edge of his ungenerous Satire but be taunted with a Dedication of it? And truly, I must own, if we are to judge of Things by their first Appearance, the angry Fair-ones transport is not quite unreasonable. But Still, Ladies, if you allow yourselves leisure to reflect, you will not only be far from considering me, with like Passions, as an insolent Enemy, but will look upon it as your common interest to acknowledge me a generous friend. Examine but the nature of the operation I have perform and the disease which made it necessary, and you will consider me in the true Character I am in which is not that of a merciless assassin whose end is destruction; but that of an honorable surgeon, who makes no Incision but to let in a Cure where it is wanting; as I have already hinted elsewhere.

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