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 Guided by the precepts of wisdom in passions and in tastes, governed by moderation in all things, observing scrupulously that cleanliness which is near akin to godliness, we perceive as we draw near the close of our discourse, that she will find in our story a deeper moral than we have yet drawn; that in the judicious cultivation of the house of our soul we cannot help but improve the inmate, and that a just appreciation of personal beauty leads to a contemplation of, and a nearer affinity to, that Celestial Beauty, which is so closely allied to the Good and the True.