If she had _wanted_ those Improvements, which she found means to acquire in her _Service_, it wou’d have been very unlikely, that she shou’d have succeeded so well; and had destroy’d _one_ great _Use_ of the Story, to have allow’d such uncommon Felicity to the Effect of mere _personal Beauty_.---And it had not been _judicious_ to have represented her as educated in a superior Condition of Life with the proper Accomplishments, before she became reduc’d by Misfortunes, and so not a Servant, but rather an Orphan under hopeless Distresses---because Opportunities which had made it no Wonder how she came to be so winningly qualified, wou’d have lessen’d her Merit in being so. And besides, where had then been the purpos’d Excitement of Persons in PAMELA’s Condition of Life, by an Emulation of her Sweetness, Humility, Modesty, Patience, and Industry, to attain some faint Hope of arriving, in time, within View of _her_ Happiness?----And what a delightful Reformation shou’d we see, in all Families, where the Vanity of their _Maids_ took no Turn toward Ambition to _please_, but by such innocent Measures, as PAMELA’s! As it is clear, then, the Author was under a Necessity to suppose her a _Servant_, he is not to be accountable for mistaken Impressions, which the Charms he has given her may happen to make, on wrong Heads, or weak Hearts, tho’ in Favour of Maids the Reverse of her Likeness. What is it then (they may say) that the Lowness, and Distance of _Pamela’s_ Condition from the Gentleman’s who married her, proposes to teach the _Gay World_, and the _Fortunate_?---_It is this_---By Comparison with that infinite Remoteness of her Condition from the Reward which her Virtue procur’d her, one great _Proof_ is deriv’d, (which is Part of the _Moral_ of PAMELA) that Advantages from _Birth_, and Distinction of _Fortune_, have no Power at all, when consider’d against those from _Behaviour_, and Temper of _Mind_: because where the _Last_ are _not added_, all the _First_ will be boasted in vain. Whereas she who possesses the Last finds _no Want_ of the First, in her Influence.