Tissot's intended audience '"Nineteen out of twenty will probably never know of its existence. Many may be unable to read it, and still more unable to understand it, plain and simple as it is. I have principally calculated it for the perusal of intelligent and charitable persons who live in the country, and who seem to have, as it were, a call from providence, to assist their less intelligent poor neighbors with their advice."

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