Note 4 — Chapter V

Haliburton remarks that the “diffusion through the country of a well-educated body of clergymen like those of the Establishment, has had a strong tendency to raise the standard of qualification among those who differ from them; while the habits, manners, and regular conduct of so respectable a body of men naturally and unconsciously modulate and influence those of their neighbours, who may not, perhaps, attend their ministrations. It is, therefore, doubtless owing in a great measure to the exertions and salutary example of the Church in the colonies, that a higher tone of moral feeling exists in the British provinces than in the neighbouring States.”