ition of society.

[Illustration: "HASTY FAMILIARITY IS FRAUGHT WITH MANY DANGERS."]

6. TRAMPLING THE AFFECTIONS OF WOMEN.--But man is a self-privileged
character. He may not only violate the laws of his own social nature with
impunity, but he may even trample upon the affections of woman. He may even
carry {151} this sinful indulgence to almost any length, and yet be
caressed and smiled tenderly upon by woman; aye, even by virtuous woman. He
may call out, only to blast the glowing affections of one young lady after
another, and yet his addresses be cordially welcomed by others. Surely a
gentleman is at perfect liberty to pay his addresses, not only to a lady,
but even to the ladies, although he does not once entertain the thought of
marrying his sweet-heart, or, rather his victim. O, man, how depraved! O,
woman, how strangely blind to your own rights and interests!

7. AN INFALLIBLE SIGN.--An infallible sign that a young man's intentions
are improper, is his trying to excite your passions. If he loves you, he
will never appeal to that feeling, because he respects you too much for
that. And the woman who allows a man to take advantage of her just to
compel him to marry her, is lost and heartless in the last degree, and
utterly destitute of moral principle as well as virtue. A woman's riches is
her virtue, that gone she has lost all.

8. THE BEGINNING OF LICENTIOUSNESS.--Man it seldom drives from society. Do
what he may, woman, aye, virtuous and even pious woman rarely excludes him
from her list of visitors. But where is the point of propriety?--immoral
transgression should exclude either sex from respectable society. Is it
that one false step which now constitutes the boundary between virtue and
vice? Or rather, the discovery of that false step? Certainly not! but it is
all that leads to, and precedes and induces it. It is this courting without
marrying. This is the beginning of licentiousness, as well as its main,
procuring cause, and therefore infinitely worse than its consummation
merely.

9. SEARING THE SOCIAL AFFECTIONS.--He has seared his social affections so
deeply, so thoroughly, so effectually, that when, at last, he wishes to
marry, he is incapable of loving. He marries, but is necessarily
cold-hearted towards his wife, which of course renders her wretched, if not
jealous, and reverses the faculties of both towards each other; making both
most miserable for life. This induces contention and mutual recrimin