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subjugation. But our affections, generosity, so- 

 ciability, sensibility, and desire to please are much 

 more insidious and are liable to grow and finally 

 to run riot till they have led us into trouble and 

 even into vice itself. The obvious corollary of 

 this would be that it is sounder to enter upon a 

 controlled career of moderate vice, to be modified 

 and transformed by the experience of the lessons 

 it teaches, than to let unbridled virtue pursue its 

 mad career unadmonished and unchecked. 



There is only one more item in connection with 

 the education of the young which I wish to refer 

 to and that is the fatal gift of memory. . I always 

 call it a fatal gift in youth, as in most cases it is 

 made use of at the expense of the free and full de- 

 velopment of the understanding and reasoning 

 powers. This fact will be patent to all who ob- 

 serve and think. 



Memory, though a splendid gift, is apt to do 

 away with the necessity of intellectual exertion, 

 as wealth only too often supplants the need and 

 destroys the desire for work of any description. 



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