...discolored by passion, or deformed by wickedness.« . . . »many characters ought never to be drawn«. . . . »to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by Treachery for Innocence ... to give the power of counteracting fraud, without the temptation to practice it; to initiate youth...
... it, to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without impairing virtue. 
