Date: 1841
Instruct os himself; and took as much pains to form our morals, as to improve our understand- ing.  We were told, that universal benevolence was what first cemented society ; we were taught to consider all the wants of mankind as our own ; to regard the human face divine with affection and esteem; he wound us up to be mere machines of pity, and rendered us incapable of withstanding the slightest impulse, made either by real or fic- titious distress; in a word, we were perfectly instructed in the art of giving away thousands before we were taught the more necessary quali- fications of getting a farthing.  'I cannot avoid imagining, that, thus refined by his lessons, out of all my suspicion, and di- vested of even all the little cunning which nature had given me, I resembled, upon my first entrance into the busy and insidious world, one of those gladiators who were exposed without armour in the amphitheatre at Rome.