their apparel, their entertainments, their furniture, and their equipage [transportation]. Idleness, extravagance, and dissipation [immorality] of every kind should be banished from our borders. It is from the industrious alone that we can gather strength. The virtues now recommended are those which prepared infant Rome for all her greatness. It is only from the practice of them that we can expect to attain that rank among nations to which our growing numbers and extensive territory entitle us to