LETTER XXVIII. 



'To the same. 



SELBORNE, Jan. 8t6, 1776. 



AR SIR, It is the hardest thing in the world 

 to shake off superstitious prejudices : they are 

 sucked in, as it were, with our mother's milk ; 

 and, growing up with us at a time when they 

 take the fastest hold and make the most lasting 

 impressions, become so interwoven into our very 

 constitutions, that the strongest good sense is 

 required to disengage ourselves from them. No wonder, therefore, 

 that the lower people retain them their whole Jives through, since 

 their minds are not invigorated by a liberal education, and therefore 

 not enabled to make any efforts adequate to the occasion. 



