They observe in them a romantic spirit, a sort of wonder-loving imagination, and a disposition towards enthusiastic flights of the fancy, which to sober persons has the appearance of a temporary derangement.

As the former effect must become injurious by producing forwardness, so this must become so by producing unsteadiness, of character.
A third effect, which the Quakers find to be produced among this description of readers, is conspicuous in a perverted morality.

They place almost every value in feeling, and in the affectation of benevolence.

They consider these as the true and only sources of good.
They make these equivalent, to moral principle.

And actions flowing from feeling, though feeling itself is not always well founded, and sometimes runs into compassion even against justice, they class as moral duties arising from moral principles.