–it is the next thing to slavery.  Good wives are always industrious.

simply because thousands of others believe it–on many important subjects the majority of persons always have been wrong.

Nearly every person believed in slavery a few years ago–nearly every person believed the earth flat a few centuries since–nearly every person, a few years ago, believed all diseases to be the result of special providences, and even a few believe it yet–thus you see any thing can be believed.