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Excerpt from The Evening Book: Or Fireside Talk on Morals and Manners, With Sketches of Western Life American views Of manners and morals should be partial or narrow, but because the foreign literature which fur nishes most of the reading of our young people seems to me likely to inspire them with un-american ideas of society and even Of duty, and it becomes, therefore, especially desirable to refer sometimes to the ancient and universal standards - those whose excellence is beyond dispute, though portions of the world have departed far from their inuence, led away by the incorrect notions Of life which prevail in 01d and corrupt communities.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.