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How can I take such an one to my heart? a thousand to one but he
has hired himself to dissemble — Shall I entrust him with the education of
my child? Yes if I would will have him require imbibe an awkward timidity,
a sullen reserve, a simper fertile in occasions of division, a disposition opposite
to philanthropy, as precipitance to decide, an aversion to enquire, a prostration to
Authority, and a jealousy of truth Reason and an indifference to Truth. Such is the constitution of Human Nature — the impetuosity of youth admitts not of that such a steady flexibility as to bend itself by turns at one time minute to a certain disposition towards a grim object, and in the next, to it's opposite

It knows not how to respect in part & disregard in part. — The Intellect in this submitts yields itself at indiscriminately to the bands that are imposed on it, & shrinking under the pressure, or by a violent effort burst at once the whole company, & suffers for want of a guide No, if a manly independence of mind, an firmness of conduct enlarged view of
the foundations of right and wrong, a clear a steadiness of conduct as it's consequence
are qualities I would wish him to possess. They have their chains to break before they can make any progress in that knowledge of the human mind heart which is so necessary to one who is to govern it or Legislator: Either they resist, and then they be lose the benefit of their secular instructions. Or else they maintain their obsequiousness inviolate, and then they continue in a state of debilitation.

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It certainly would give no very favorable impression of them, if like the Cappadocians
of hold, they should hug their chains, and refuse reject the liberty to which they
are invited. — & But what would it be said are those chains? But chains by which they themselves are
galled: rivetted fixed as they are by choice not less than necessity will in that circumference which the happy sincerity of a barbarous age has marked out their bondage they [will] tell you us is perfect freedom: Chains which weigh
only on their miserable Brethren, whom whose consciences they persist to excruciate and to oppress,
regardless of their entreaties their expostulations and their prayers — By
their conduct treatment behaviour to of those of us who are in their power, those of us who are not
so will judge with unerring certainty whether it is to their impotence inability or their
conscience [that] we owe that they are not [still] our Tyrants That conduct then would be marked with something worse than the stupidity for which that nature remains an example on record" & It is not easy to find for it a name — I tremble at the Idea of that reproach in which so many estimable men will be involved. in which educated in the prudent habit of non-examination is , & trained up in that confusion of moral Ideas is propagated, the influence of which is so friendly to the reception of authorized absurdities

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