Show SLANDER though uniformity and system uny be charac tc isad as is proof of fine sense and good taste yet wise an arrangements should be the effect of sound reasoning and not of an all idle spirit of conform conformity ltv this iniquitous spirit of uniformity that is 1 to do or merely from a desire for imitation betrays its deformity defoi mity nitty in ill the following follo lying consideration the world ot of is excessively more distinguished for vice fiolli which to set example cample c than for virtue wt we cin walk strictly stil etly in vilt lles paths in no other way than horn f orn principle while to gain the path of vice only a thong thoughtless acquiescence in tile the instigation of example the ways by which an inconsiderate of imitation is productive of vice are innumerable but its roost most marked barkei effects effect are arc upon reputation in so social C at lif life e this spirit of imitation may I 1 sometimes 0 M et i mes be productive duct oro of good yet that good bears no proportion to the evil arling arising aiom this source often the most olivial circumstance subjects a person to ridicule in tile the opinion of some one of this class it is taken take up lip and repeated by another and in most casos cases greatly exa exaggerated and in like manner is the operation of a whole circle thus the matter increases until what was so go trivial becomes the most erroneous slander upon the attacked member consequent contemptuous neglect by the community follows by which means millions of meritorious characters of both sexes have b a v 0 been hunted flom society with scorn and disgrace m v hen but for this malign influence they mig might lit have hanc constituted its brightest oina ornaments ments ants in t the he opposite scale as many millions million I 1 who merited execration and contempt lime ime lisan to popular astl esteem el because the voice of vain flattery has been becia copied in succession on from the mouth of ono one individual by others those people aho vho NN ito practice pr this idle spirit of imitation aie it c fools without vt hout an apology aPOI OY and it a ty that hev were N e re n not of in a all cisch the vic victims tillis of their own stupidity in fine the most aboa abominable sentiments take like their rise from the ilic idle plan of one person another cop ins in without discretion the words of |