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How does Wollstonecraft use religion to support her argument for women’s education?

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Mary Wollstonecraft makes repeated appeals in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to "God and virtue." As with many thinkers of the Enlightenment, Wollstonecraft was a deist, someone who believed that God had created a perfectly intelligible world but no longer played any continuing role in His creation. Hence there were no miracles, no acts of divine intervention or suchlike. Above all else, God had created a rational world in which it was absurd

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