There is therefore probably more pleasure in the preparations for such amusements, and in the previous talk about them, than in the amusements themselves.
It is also probable that the greatest pleasure felt in the ball-room, is felt by those, who get into it as spectators only.

These receive pleasure from the music, from the beat of the steps in unison with it, but particularly from the idea that all, who join in the dance, are happy.

These considerations produce in the spectator cheerfulness and mirth; and these are continued to him more pure and unalloyed than in the former case, because he can have no drawbacks from the admission into his own breast of any of those uneasy, immoral passions, above described.
But to return to the point in question.

The reader has now had the different cases laid before him as determined by the moral philosopher.
He has been conducted also through the interior of the ball-room.

He will have perceived therefore that the arguments of the Quakers have gradually unfolded themselves, and that they are more or less conspicuous, or more or less true, as dancing is viewed abstractedly, or in connection with the preparations and accompaniments, that may be interwoven with it.