And it may be thought hard to condemn it as absolutely unlawful, since there are particular cases of persons, infirm in body and mind, where it seems requisite to draw them out of themselves by a variety of ideas and ends in view, which gently engage the attention .-- But the reason takes place in very few instances .-- The general motives to play are avarice, joined with a fraudulent intention explicit or implicit, ostentation of skill, and spleen, through the want of some serious, useful occupation.

And as this practice arises from such corrupt sources, so it has a tendency to increase them; and indeed may be considered as an express method of begetting and inculcating self-interest, ill will, envy, and the like.

For by gaming a man learns to pursue his own interest solely and explicitly, and to rejoice at the loss of others, as his own gain, grieve at their gain, as his own loss, thus entirely reversing the order established by providence for social creatures." CHAP.

III.....SECT.

I.
_Music forbidden--general apology for the Quakers on account of their prohibition of so delightful a science--music particularly abused at the present day--wherein this abuse consists--present use of it almost inseparable from the abuse._ Plato, when he formed what he called his pure republic, would not allow music to have any place in it.