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more Conummated Follies and Diorders, of either a Mi-taught, or a Neglected Youth? Nay, what are All the Publick Outrages of a Detroying Tyranny and Oppreion, but Childih Appetites let alone 'till they are grown Ungovernable? Beide, that it is Infinitely Eaier to prevent Ill Habits, than to Matter them; As the Choaking of the Fountain is the uret Way to Cut off the Coure of the River. It hould be Conider'd too that we have the eeds of Virtue in us, as well as of Vice; and when ever we take a Wrong Bias, 'tis not out of a Moral Incapacity to do Better, but for want of a Careful Manage and Dicipline, to let us Right at Firt.

Wherefore Children hould be Moulded while their Tempers are yet Pliant and Ductile. As Pride, for the Purpoe, that Aries from a Fale Opinion of Things, mould be Obviated by Enforming their Undertandings. And o for Envy; the very Dipoition to it is to be Sweeten'd, as Flowing from a Certain Froward Tiniture of Ill Nature. (I peak This of the Malevolent, Canker'd Paion of Envy, which, in Effect, is Little or Nothing akin to the Silly Envy of the As here in the Fable.) In One word, Children hould be eaon'd betimes, and Leon'd into uch a Contempt, and Detetation of This Vice, as neither to practice it Themelves, nor to Approve it in Others. This is, in Little, the Foundation of a Virtuous Life, and there goes no more than Judging, and Acting Aright, to the Character of a Good Philoopher, a Good Chritian, and a Good Man: For to Know, and to Do, is the Compendium of our Duty.

It is not for Every Twatling Goip yet, or ome Empty Pedant, preently to Undertake This Province; for it requires a Critical Nicety both of Wit, and of Judgment, to find out the Genius, or the Propenions of a Child, and to Ditinguih betwixt the Impules of Envy, and Thoe of Emulation: Betwixt the Firt Motions of a Churlih, and Impetuous Inolence, and Thoe of a Serene Greatnes, and Dignity of Mind. It is nor, I fay, for Every Common Eye, or Hand, to Divide o Accurately betwixt the Good, and the Evil, the Gracious, and the Pervere, as to Hit the precie Medium of Encouraging the One, without Dicouraging the Other. And This Faculty of Dicerning is not enough neither, without a Watchful Aiduity of Application. The Jut Scaon of Doing Things mut be Nick'd, and All Accidents Oberv'd and Improv'd; for Weak Minds are to be as Narrowly Attended, as Sickly Bodies: To ay Nothing of the Infinite Curioity of the Operation, in the Forming of our Lives and Manners: And that not One man of Ten Thouand is Competently Qualify'd for the Office. Upon the Whole Matter there mut be an Awe maintain'd on the One Hand, and at the ame time, a Love and Reverence Preerv'd on the Other. And all this mut be Order'd too with o Gentile a Softnes of Addres, that we may not Hazzard, either the Stifling, or the Quenching of Generous Inclinations, by bearing too Hard upon them, or the Licentiating of any thing that is Coure and Vulgar, out of a foolih Facility or a Mitaken Pity. It is with our Paions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are Good Servants, but Bad Maters, and Subminiter to the Belt, and Word of Purpoes, at once. This is enough aid, as to the Wickednes, and the Fate of Pride; The Source and Danger of it, together with the only ure and Effectual Means of Remedy.

The Moral leads me in the Next place, to Confider the Folly of both the Hore and the As; The One, in Placing his Happines upon any thing that could be Taken away, and the Other, in Envying that Mitaken Happines, under the Abue of the ame Splendid Illuion and ture