And there are so many causes tending to make the feelings connected with this subject the most intense and most deeply- rooted of those which gather round and protect old institutions and custom, that we need not wonder to find them as yet less undermined

I had further enlarged on the advantages which might reasonably be expected to result from an improvement in female manners, towards the general reformation of society; but it appeared to me that such reflections would more properly close the last volume.

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