34 MEMOIRS OF 



or ufeful, rendered Mr. Day fceptical to- 

 wards revealed religion, though by no 

 means a confirmed deift. Moft unlike 

 Doctor Johnfon in thofe doubts, he re- 

 fembled him in want of fympathy with 

 fuch miferies as fpring from refinement 

 and the fofter affections ; refembled him 

 alfo, in true compaffion for the fufferings 

 of cold and hunger. To the power of re- 

 lieving them he nobly facrificed all the 

 parade of life, and all the pleafures of 

 luxury. For that mafs of human charac- 

 ter w 7 hich conftitutes polifhed fociety, he 

 avowed a fovereign contempt; above all 

 things he expreffed averfion to the modern 

 plans of female education, attributing to 

 their influence the fickleness which had 

 ftting him. He thought it, however, his 

 duty to marry ; nurfed fy Hematic ideas of 

 the force of philofophic tuition to produce 

 future virtue, and loved to mould the in- 

 fant and youthful mind. 



Ever 



