m'd a sufficient Proof thereof----The Gentleman himself
acknowledges that _when it has dwelt all Day long upon the Ear, it takes
Possession all night of the Fancy_; That is, I suppose, it contributes
to make his _Dreams_ something pleasanter than usual; and I am sorry if
I am mistaken, but it seems to me, that he wrote his Dissertation half
awake and half asleep, just as he was disturb'd from one of those
agreeable Reveries----His Return from his Walk in the Snow and the
Reflection there made, is far from holding good, if it shall appear that
the Author of _Pamela_, instead of being Father to _Millions of Minds_,
serves only to inspire them with Thoughts and Ideas, which must
infallibly make the Mind subservient to the Body, and Reason not only
fall a Victim to, but, quite debauch'd, assist the sensual Appetites.

The Objections pretended to be made by an anonymous Gentleman were in my
Opinion only formed on Purpose for the Sake of the Answers; so passing
over them:--_Parson_ Williams's _Dove_ without serpentine Mixture; the
natural Story of the little Boy, for which Sort of Admirers _Pamela_
seems to be more immediately calculated, &c. I come to the Objection the
Gentleman makes himself, which I cant think would be sufficiently
_obviated_ by any _Alteration_ in the _Front of another Edition_, while
the same is retained in the very Body of the Story; his Objection take
in his own Words.

"There are Mothers or Grandmothers (saith he) in all Families of
affluent Fortune who tho' they may have none of _Lady Davers's
Insolence_, will be apt to feel one of her _Fears_--That the Example of
a Gentleman so amiable as Mr. _B----_ may be follow'd by the _Jackies_
their Sons, with too blind and unreflecting a Readiness; nor does the
Answer of that Gentleman to his Sister's Reproach come quite up to the
Point they will rest on: For though indeed it is true, all the World
would acquit the best Gentleman in it, if he married such a Waiting Maid
as _Pamela_, yet there is an ill discerning Partiality in Passion that
will overthrow all the Force of that Argument: _Because every beloved
Maid would be a Pamela_, in a Judgment obscured by her Influence."

Nor can I think he has stated his own Objection as strong as it might
be, or even sufficiently answer'd it as it is, for where he recommends
"the purpos'd Excitement of Persons in _Pamela's_ Condition of Life, by
an Emulation of her Sweetness, Humility, Modesty, Patience and Industry
to