Date: 1854
For this purpose, he undertook to instruct us himself; and took as much pains to form our morals as to improve our understanding.  We were told, that universal benevolence was what first cemented society ; we were taught to con sider aU 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 in capable of withstanding the shghtest impulse, made either by real or fictitious distress ; in a word, we were perfectly instructed in the art of giving away thousands, before we were taught the more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing. "  I cannot avoid imagining, that thus refined by his lessons out of aU my suspicion, and divested of even all the Uttle cunning which nature had given me, I resembled, upon my first entrance into the busy and insidious world, one of those gla diators who were exposed without armour in the amphitheatre at Rome.