He still perseveres in the contest, for the amusement points out to him the possibility of repairing his loss.

In short, there is no end of hope upon these occasions.

It is always hovering about during the contest.
Cards, therefore, and amusements of the same nature, by holding up prospects of pecuniary acquisitions on the one hand, and of repairing losses, that may arise on any occasion, on the other, have a direct tendency to produce habits of gaming.
Now the Quakers consider these habits as, of all others, the most pernicious; for they usually change the disposition of a man, and ruin his moral character.
From generous-hearted they make him avaricious.

The covetousness too, which they introduce as it were into his nature, is of a kind, that is more than ordinarily injurious.

It brings disease upon the body, as it brings corruption upon the mind.