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Excerpt from Sermons, Chiefly on Particular Occasions
3. I trust I may add, in the third place, my brethren, that the age which has past has also im proved in virtue. However much we may still have to regret the weakness or the vices of our na ture, it were unjust and uncandid not to acknow ledge, that, in comparison with the ages that pre ceded it, the last age has added eminently to social happiness. Many of the barbarities of ancient manners have been softened; many of the prej udi ces which divided men from each other have been dissolved. Learning and knowledge have found their way to every rank of mankind and. While they have given new dignity and happiness to the higher conditions of society, they have, at the same time, improved the conduct, while they have ele.
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