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Editorial
August 19, 1785
Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Critiques women's propensity for personal decoration over intellectual development, advocating modesty in rural life. Warns that luxury fosters corruption and signals national decline, urging religious and press condemnation as antithetical to democratic governance.
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OCR Quality
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Full Text
There are so many of the female sex, says a correspondent, who exhibit such a propensity to decorate the persons, while the intellects, are totally neglected, as diffuse itself in the most sequestered walks of life, where the neat country girl, instead of being adorned with the fripperies of the day, could content herself with the modest productions of her own industry. Luxury is the source of corruption, and the presage of national declension and ruin. It is esteemed and it is censured; it is entertained as adorning and conducive; and it is proscribed as a wickedness which the pulpit and the press ought to inveigh against, as adverse to the forms of democratical governments.
What sub-type of article is it?
Moral Or Religious
Social Reform
What keywords are associated?
Female Vanity
Luxury Corruption
National Decline
Moral Reform
Democratical Governments
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Critique Of Luxury And Female Vanity
Stance / Tone
Moral Condemnation
Key Arguments
Women Exhibit Propensity To Decorate Persons While Neglecting Intellects
Country Girls Should Content With Modest Productions Of Own Industry
Luxury Is Source Of Corruption
Luxury Presages National Declension And Ruin
Luxury Adverse To Democratical Governments
Pulpit And Press Ought To Inveigh Against Luxury