SECT. I.--_Dancing forbidden--light in which this subject has been viewed both by the ancients and the moderns--Quakers principally object to it, where it is connected with public assemblies--they conceive it productive, in this case, of a frivolous levity, and of an excitement of many of the evil passions_. SECT. II--_These arguments of the Quakers, on dancing, examined in three supposed cases put to a moral philosopher_. SECT. III.--_These arguments further elucidated by a display of the Ball-room_. CHAPTER VI. _Novels forbidden--considered by the Quakers as producing an affectation of knowledge--a romantic spirit--and a perverted morality_. CHAPTER VII. SECT. I--_Diversions of the field forbidden--general thoughtlessness upon this subject--sentiments of some of our best poets--law of the Quakers concerning it_. SECT. II.--_Consistency of this law examined by the morality, which is inculcated by the Old Testament_. SECT. III.--_Examined by the morality of the New--these employments, if resorted to as diversions, pronounced, in both cases, to be a breach of a moral law_. CHAPTER VIII. _Objections to the preceding system, which includes these different prohibitions, as a system of moral education_. CHAPTER IX. SECT. I.--_Reply of the Quakers to these objections_. SECT. II.--_Further reply of the Quakers on the same subject_. * * * * * DISCIPLINE. CHAPTER I. SECT. I.--_Outlines of the discipline of the Quakers_. SECT. II.--_Manner of the administration of this discipline_. SECT. III.--_Charges usually brought against the administration of it--observations in answer in these charges_. SECT. IV.--_The principles of this discipline applicable to the discipline of larger societies, or to the criminal codes of states--beautiful example in Pennsylvania_. CHAPTER II. _Monthly court or meeting of the Quakers for the purposes of their discipline--nature and manner of the business transacted there_. CHAPTER III. _Quarterly court or meeting for the same purposes--nature and manner of the business there_. CHAPTER IV. _Annual court or meeting for the same purposes--nature and manner of the business there--striking peculiarities in this manner--character of this discipline or government_. CHAPTER V. _Excommunication or disowning--nature of disowning as a punishment_. PECULIAR CUSTOMS. CHAPTER I. SECT. I.--_Dress--extravagance of the dress of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries--plain manner in which the grave and religious were then habited--the Quakers sprang out of these_. SECT. II.--_Quakers carried with them their plain dresses into their new society--extravagance of the world continuing, they defined the objects of dress as a Christian people--at length incorporated it into their discipline--hence their present dress is only a less deviation from that of their ancestors, than that of other people_.