The Preface. 
cannot partake of thofe Improvements that are made a- 
broad, or conceal'd at home , in a Language to them un- 
known , I fuppefe no fober Man will blame me y or any other , 
for Writing or Rendring into Englijh fuch things as may 
be more generally conducive to the Health or Welfare of 
our Country. 
But it is to little parpofe to appeal to fober Men, they 
being now-a-days the weakpft and mofi contemptible Par- 
ty y and fo can yield no Protection : He therefore that dares 
advance any thing for publicly Good, mujl expect publicity 
Hatred. But, be it fo , 'tis better to be beneficial to 
Men, than to be belov’d by them : And the folid Comfort 
of Well-doing infinitely furpajfes the fleet ingPraifes of the 
giddy Multitude : And no other Reward can the beji Men 
receive , as long as Men are encourag'd in their Vices, by 
great and bad Examples. Yet it muft be own'd there is 
a Semblance of Vert ue ft ill remaining amongfi us : Many 
take care to give their Children good Education $ the ten- 
der Infant, before he can fpeal^plain, lifps the Praifes of 
his Maker : And he that Jhould lool^into publicly Schools , 
dr Vniverfities, and obferve there thofe excellent Precepts 
that are daily inf ill'd into Youth, would believe their 
Lives mufl be ever after unavoidably influenc’d thereby ; 
but then {'tis a fad Truth) many vicious Parents, by their 
ill Examples, foon poyfon thofe wholfom InftruCtions ; 
and the Striplings are forc'd to abandon their Morals, to 
prove themfelves Legitimate. 
So that he that fhould confder tl>e ftriCl Rules of Edu- 
cation, and the Incongruity of Practice thereunto, would 
be induc’d to believe, that Men fuccejjively banter one a- 
notherfiy propofing fuch Rules as they think, are either im- 
practicable , or not worth the minding : And if fo. Why 
does Man alone, of all the Creatures on God's Earth, im- 
pofe upon his Offfpring ? Why does he not, with the milder 
Tyger, early inflruCi his Young Ones in the Art of Rapine, 
and infufe fuch favage Principles as are more peculi- 
arly agreeable to the Humane Nature, that in die time 
they 
