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mould and train a whole community to good manners, and 

 then to good morals, just as bad influences and examples pro- 

 duce the opposite effect. If "evil communications corrupt 

 good manners," it is no less sure that associations with pure, 

 true, refined, and heroic persons tend to the development of 

 purity, truth, refinement, and heroism. The influence of a 

 sovereign, a court, an aristocracy for good or evil, upon the 

 manners and morals of a whole community is well known ; and 

 every one is an educator of others, in proportion to his position, 

 force of character, and nearness of association with them. 

 Robinson Crusoe should be a gentleman for his own sake. 

 Every one, however isolated, should be able to respect himself, 

 and should treat himself with civility and politeness. And the 

 bare possibility that there may be invisible intelligences around 

 us, seeing us and reading our thoughts, should be a motive to 

 good conduct. But when we live in society, and our conversa- 

 tion and actions must produce some effect upon all who see 

 and hear us all who come into the sphere of our personality, 

 thought, and life our responsibility becomes evident. No 

 man can ask: "Am I my brother's keeper?" "We are all 

 members, one of another." 



CHAPTER VI. 



DIFFICULTIES OF SOCIAL ORGANISATION. 



The Difficulty of Caste What should determine Social Position Moral 

 Influences of Association Habit and Education Feminine Helpless- 

 ness The Difficulty of Bad Manners Masculine Professions The 

 Religious Difficulty. 



THE difficulties in the way of any new social order must be 

 fainy considered, and some of them are very great. The first 



