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HATEVER tends to corrupt and debauch the morals of the people, tends to satvell the constitution. No problem in Euclid is more demonstrable. Let those mhen, who profess a zeal for the preservation of the fructure, be con sistent enough to show some attention to its foun dation. Our women are become so very profli gate, so very abandoned, that unless some check be speedily given to their career in vice and im pudence, there must soon be an end of all virtue, and, with virtue, an end of every blessing worth preserving. Freedom cannot long survive, when the principles which can alone stimulate the peo ple to defend it, are loft in the general wreck,. If the want of female virtue continue to be counte nanced by faction, all ranks will speedily become dissolute, the temptations to breach of friendship, hospitality, and every tie that should bind man kind, will be so frequent, and so powerful, that human frailty will be unable to withstand them, and when once a man becomes callous to the sense of private principle, it is folly to suppose he will long have any feeling for public. I hope, there fore, that a work just published, entitled, 7 thoughts on the Times, but chiefly on the Profligacy of our Women, will be the means of awakening the good sense of the nation, before it be too late. As I think its being attended to, must have the most happy effects, I beg leave to send you an extract from it, for the benefit of mankind. What fol lows introduces the work :— . capable of ‘relidhinip any of those rational pleasures for which it was formédt and which alove can afford it satisfation ——. and thus ‘destroying all. Jrivcte principle; removes the fornation of xb liew and rinfares dead majorities:in Parliament, and greatly acquiescence in the peopler i) .,Snéll no attempt be made to stop this devouring. ‘fire, before it shall have destroyedstvery thing ,worth preserving on earth—doma fic peace, public interest, public liberty ?—The conflagration rages. —shall we not make a single effort to check us, progress ?—While yet may be possible to quench the flames, let us carefully remove. whatever it shall be found can feed them... Hor.my part, I hold it incumbent on every man to do this. utmost to stop an evil, that is a reproach. to.u3 as a nation —bullies our name~and must, if not: remedied, be our destruction. . It is with this view I shall endeavour to expose those causes, which I think lead to the ruin of female virtue—I value not the approbation or censure of ary but the worthy part of. the commuu nity—and I hope the motive by which I am ac tuated, will, in their estimation, cover any de fects that they may find in the performance, I protest, that when I consider the present mode of female education—the life our women lead—the ‘French refinement that has crept into our man ners how much fashion has become a tyrant— and, above all, that shameful, scandalous,custoge of employing men midwives—which our women now, without any necessity, modesty, delicacy, dé cency—or respect to the opinion of mankind,with the greatest effrontery, and impudence, adopt—o far from being: surprised at: the number of .womeggr, who daily are detested_destitute. cf .virtue—I am surprised to find the number is not trebled!” The work afterwards shows how absurdly our female youth are educated—how dangerous, life they lead, on commencing , women—and. how standoged the practice is, of unnecesarily: ‘em ploying a man midwife. I most earnestly, with success to this attempt to amend the age—and it should‘be applauded by every one. ‘who “really i is, ar well had eatha thau the We Ws bY UG MivUuRgub A Friend to Virtue. I am glad to find that the Bishop of Landaf has just brought in a bill to rectify one ‘part of the abuse, which it is the objet of this work to re move. Vice and immorality will oppose but I hope oppose it vain—there efforts to prevent what promotes both.
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London Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Mar 13, 1779
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