It may be observed also, that an unsteady or romantic spirit or a wonder-loving or flighty imagination, can never qualify a woman for domestic duties, or make her a sedate and prudent wife.

Nor can a relaxed morality qualify her for the discharge of her duty as a parent in the religious education of her children.
But, independently of these, there is another evil, which the Quakers attach to novel-reading, of a nature too serious to be omitted in this account.

It is that those who are attached to this species of reading, become indisposed towards any other.
This indisposition arises from the peculiar construction of novels.
Their structure is similar to that of dramatic compositions.

They exhibit characters to view.

They have their heroes and heroines in the same manner.