PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 1^9 



fordid condition of mere barbarifm, th.m 

 j:hc manners of" a civilized people. 



From perpetual cufloiTi, every one 

 claims a right to klfs and fondle a child. 

 Nurfes, and all who have the charge of 

 bringing up children, malt be extremely 

 cautious whom they admit to this fami- 

 liarity, and pofitive never to allow it t& 

 ftrangers, efpecially of low rank ; who, 

 to procure favour, are often forward to 

 fliew, this way, an afFe(5led fondnefs. 



Much more might be faid with re- 

 gard to cleanlinefs, and equally neceiTai^y 

 to be obfefved, which will readily occur 

 to thofe who have any tafle for it, or a 

 fenfe of the danger to which, by the ne- 

 gledt of it, they are expofed. 



Many, through fear of iliame, and a 

 criminal [modefty, by concealing the ma^- 

 }ady,have fufFered it to go a great length, 

 to their own difquiet, and the endanger- 

 ing of others. In a lowerdegree, it may 

 jurk in the body a long time harmlefs, 

 till, flrengrhened by time and accidents,' 

 it becomes powerful enough to infedl,- 

 even before there are any certain appeaf- 

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