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The republican institutions of our country have produced simpler

and happier manners than those which prevail in the great

monarchies that surround it. Hence there is less distinction

between the several classes of its inhabitants; and the lower

orders, being neither so poor nor so despised, their manners are

more refined and moral. A servant in Geneva does not mean the

same thing as a servant in France and England. Justine, thus

received in our family, learned the duties of a servant, a

condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the

idea of ignorance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human

being.