personates the characters of others--and it professes to reform vice_.

SECT III.--_Contents of the drama objected to--as they hold our false
sentiments--and weaken the sinews of morality_.

SECT IV.--_Theater considered by the Quakers to be injurious to the
happiness of man, as it disqualifies him for the pleasure of religion_.

SECT V.--_To be injurious to the happiness of man, as it disqualifies
him for domestic enjoyments_.

SECT VI.--_Opinions of the early Christians on this subject_.


CHAPTER V.

SECT. I.--_Dancing forbidden--light in which this subject has been
viewed both by the ancients and the moderns--Quakers principally object
to it, where it is connected with public assemblies--they conceive it
productive, in this case, of a frivolous levity, and of an excitement of
many of the evil passions_.

SECT. II--_These arguments of the Quakers, on dancing, examined in
three supposed cases put to a moral philosopher_.

SECT. III.--_These arguments further elucidated by a display of the
Ball-room_.


CHAPTER VI.