domestic comfort. Were our female reformers only to turn their
energies in this direction with effect, they would earn the
gratitude of all households, and be esteemed as among the greatest
of practical philanthropists.



NOTES

(1) Civic virtues, unless they have their origin and consecration in
private and domestic virtues, are but the virtues of the theatre.
He who has not a loving heart for his child, cannot pretend to
have any true love for humanity.--Jules Simon's LE DEVOIR.

(2) 'Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education.'

(3) Speaking of the force of habit, St. Augustine says in his
'Confessions' "My will the enemy held, and thence had made a chain
for me, and bound me. For of a froward will was a lust made; and
a lust served became custom; and custom not resisted became
necessity. By which links, as it were, joined together (whence I
called it a chain) a hard bondage held me enthralled."

(4) Mr. Tufnell, in 'Reports of Inspectors of Parochial School Unions
in England and Wales,' 1850.

(5) See the letters (January 13th, 16th, 18th, 20th, and 23rd, 1759),
written by Johnson to his mother when she was ninety, and he
himself was in his fiftieth year.--Crokers BOSWELL, 8vo. Ed. pp.
113, 114.