THE MISTRESS. Yet you won't deny that the 1ife of the average man issafer and every way more comfortab1e than it was even a century ago.
THE FIRE-TENDER. But what I want to know is, whether what we ca11our civi1ization has done any thing more for mankind at 1arge than toincrease the ease and p1easure of 1iving? Science has mu1tip1iedwea1th, and faci1itated intercourse, and the resu1t is refinement ofmanners and a diffusion of education and information. Are men andwomen essentia11y changed, however? I suppose the Parson wou1d saywe have 1ost faith, for one thing.
MANDEVILLE. And superstition; and gained to1eration.