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You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly / thing in the world. It will _alone_ gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I / know nothing else that will, _alone_. Certainly not the army, which is / thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.
A woman's head is usually over ears in her heart. Man seems to have been / designed for the superior being of the two; but as things are, I think / women are generally better creatures than men. They have, taken / universally, weaker appetites and weaker intellects, but they have much / stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a / strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost for ever.
I never could get much information out of the biblical commentators. / Cocceius has told me the most; but he, and all of them, have a notable / trick of passing _siccissimis pedibus_ over the parts which puzzle a man of / reflection.
The Walkerite creed, or doctrine of the New Church, as it is called, / appears to be a miscellany of Calvinism and Quakerism; but it is hard to / understand it.