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 and utter neglect of the education of the people; the cruel discipline of prisons; the villany of the slave trade; the wild iniquity of the navy; the coarse indulgences of the army; the savage sports of the people; the common infidelity, the general drunkenness, the profane swearing; with many other enormities which could be named,—all belonged to that hideous inventory of public degradation by which the safety of all spiritual life was endangered. But all those shameful things have received a blow: they may not all be dead, but they are all now held up to public scorn; and wherever any of their progeny are discovered, an attempt is made to restrain their wickedness.