An Inquiry into the Legal Mode of Suppressing Speech to the assembled Inhabitants of the Counties of Middlesex and Surry, the Cities of London and THE LAWS OF MENU, SON OF BRAHMÁ, (CONTINUED.) CHAPTER THE NINTH. On Judicature; on Law, Private and Criminal; and on the Commercial and Servile Claffes. 1. I NOW will propound the immemorial duties of man and woman, who must both ' remain firm in the legal path, whether united or feparated. 2. Day and night muft women be held by 'their protectors in a state of dependence; but in lawful and innocent recreations, though 'rather addicted to them, they may be left at ⚫ their own difpofal. 3. • Their fathers protect them in childhood; 'their husbands protect them in youth; their 'fons protect them in age: a woman is never 'fit for independence. 4. Reprehenfible is the father, who gives 'not his daughter in marriage at the proper time; and the husband, who approaches not his wife in due feafon; reprehenfible alfo is the fon, who protects not his mother after the ' death of her lord. 5. 'Women must, above all, be restrained. • from the smallest illicit gratification; for, not being thus reftrained, they bring forrow on • both families: 6. Let husbands confider this as the supreme law, ordained for all claffes; and let them, 'how weak foever, diligently keep their wives • under lawful restrictions; 7. For he, who preferves his wife from 'vice, preferves his offspring from fufpicion of baftardy, his ancient ufages from neglect, his family from difgrace, himself from anguish, and • his duty from violation. 6 8. The husband, after conception by his wife, becomes himself an embryo, and is born a fecond time here below; for which reason the wife is called jáyá, fince by her (jáyaté) he is born again: 9. 'Now the wife brings forth a fon endued ' with fimilar qualities to those of the father; so that, with a view to an excellent offspring, he muft vigilantly guard his wife. 10. No man, indeed, can wholly restrain |