A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

What analogy does Wollstonecraft present in the first paragraph of her argument? How does this analogy clarify the point she is making?

what analogy does wollstonecraft present in the first paragraph of her argument? how does this analogy clarify the point she is making?

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In a treatise, therefore, on female rights and manners, the works which have been particularly written for their improvement must not be overlooked; especially when it is asserted, in direct terms, that the minds of women are enfeebled by false refinement; that the books of instruction, written by men of genius, have had the same tendency as more frivolous productions; and that, in the true style of Mahometanism, they are treated as a kind of subordinate beings, and not as a part of the human species, when improvable reason is allowed to be the dignified distinction which raises men above the brute creation, and puts a natural scepter in a feeble hand.

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A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN