Hence a rich man may escape for a longer time without admonition, than a poorer member.

But when the ice is once broken; when admonition is once begun; when respectable persons have been called in by overseers or others, those causes, which might be preventive of justice, will decrease; and, if the matter should be carried to a monthly or a quarterly meeting, they will wholly vanish.

For in these courts it is a truth, that those, who are the most irreproachable for their lives, and the most likely of course to decide justly on any occasion, are the most attended to, or carry the most weight, when they speak publicly.

Now these are to be found principally in the low and middle classes, and these, in all societies, contain the greatest number of individuals.

As to the very rich, these are few indeed compared with the rest, and these may be subdivided into two classes for the farther elucidation of the point.