It is known that in all cases extremes meet.

The savage is nearer to nature than the merely civilized being, and the creature that has passed the mystifications of a middle state of improvement finds himself again approaching nearer to the habits, the wishes, and the opinions of our common mother.

As the real gentleman is more simple in manners than the distant imitator of his deportment; as fashions and habits are always more exaggerated in provincial towns than in polished capitals; or as the profound philosopher has less pretensions than the tyro, so does our common genus, as it draws nearer to the consummation of its destiny and its highest attainments, learn to reject the most valued usages of the middle condition, and to return with ardor towards nature as to a first love.

It is on this principle, sir, that the monikin family never wear clothes." "I could not but perceive that the ladies have manifested some embarrassment ever since I entered--is it possible that their delicacy has taken the alarm at the state of my toilet ?" "At the toilet itself, Sir John, rather than at its state, if I must speak plainly.

The female mind, trained as it is with us from infancy upwards in the habits and usages of nature, is shocked by any departure from her rules.