294: ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 



Why should not one man rest in 

 one individual ? 



For MAGNANIMITY Against 



When the mind proposes honorable Magnanimity is a poetical virtue. 

 ends, not only the virtues but the dei 

 ties are ready to assist. 



Yirtues proceeding from habit or 

 precept are vulgar, but those that pro 

 ceed from the end, heroical. 



For NATURE Against 



Custom goes in arithmetical, but na- Men think according to nature, 



ture in geometrical progression. speak according to precept, but act 



As laws are to custom in stales, according to custom, 



so is nature to custom in particular Nature is a kind of schoolmaster; 



persons. custom, a magistrate. 



Custom against nature is a kind of 

 tyranny, but easily suppressed. 



For NOBILITY Against 



Where virtue is deeply implanted Nobility seldom springs from virtue, 



from the stock, there can be no and virtue seldomer from nobility, 

 vice. Nobles oftener plead their ancestors 



Nobility is a laurel conferred by for pardon than promotion, 

 time. New rising men are so industrious 



If we reverence antiquity in dead as to make nobles seem like statues, 

 monuments, we should do it much Nobles, like bad racers, look back 

 more in living ones. too often iu the course. 



If we despise nobility in families, 

 what difference is there between men 

 and brutes ? 



Nobility shelters virtue from envy 

 and recommends it to favor. 



For POPULARITY Against 



Uniformity commonly pleases wise He who suits with fools may him- 

 men, yet it is a point of wisdom to self be suspected. * 

 humor the changeable nature of fools. He who pleases the rabble is corn- 

 To honor the people is the way to monly turbulent. 

 be honored. No moderate counsels take with the 



Men in place are usually awed not vulgar. 



by one man but the multitude. To fawn on the people is the basest 



flattery. 



