They must be lovers of their kind, not lovers of themselves; brave as patriots, not as soldiers of fortune who seek for booty and renown.
Not many of these true reformers--all honor to them!--are found among the noisy coteries that infest the land and turn so many foolish people away from real duties.
One of the dangers attendant on association with the class to which we refer lies in the fact that they draw around them certain free-thinking, sensual personages, of no very stable morality, who are ready for anything that gives excitement to their morbid conditions of mind.

Social disasters, of the saddest kind, are constantly occurring through this cause.

Men and women become at first unsettled in their opinions, then unsettled in their conduct, and finally throw off all virtuous restraint.
Mrs.Talbot, the new friend of Mrs.Emerson, belonged to the better sort of reformers in one respect.

She was a pure-minded woman; but this did not keep her out of the circle of those who were of freer thought and action.

Being an extremist on the subject of woman's social position, she met and assimilated with others on the basis of a common sentiment.