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 To dispense with Laws from Necessity, or for the Sake of some public Convenience, may be excusable, and even reasonable; but, to suffer such Laws as our Ancestors instituted form the wisest Motives, and for the most salutary Purposes, to fall into Dissuetude, and even Contempt, to gratify the Lovers of Diversions; in Favour of which, even their best Advocate is able to say no more, than that they are silly Diversions, is not a little strange and surprising, and must give a singular Idea of those Alterations in our Policy and Manners, which have arisen from our Politeness, and our Desire to copy Foreigners in every Thing, not excepting those Follies, of which the wisest People amongst them profess themselves ashamed.