Excerpt from Moral Aspects of City Life, Vol. 1: A Series But from every field of action and from every experience. In seeking to do this, I have used that language which I deemed most effective, and without any refined elaboration have sent it to type very much as it fell from my lips. I trust, however, be the faults of this book what they mav, that some influence may go out from it for individual virtue and reli gion, and for a more Christian state of society in our great cities. E. H. C. New-york, october, 1853. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.