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educated at tliefame fchool, muft depend on 
their different capacity, or aptitude to re- 
ceive and retain the fame impreflkms. Ha- 
bits, therefore, of fervility and fucceffive ty- 
ranny, will contaminate the difpofition of 
one youth more than another; but every 
young gentleman emerging from a public 
fchool, mould examine his difpofition with 
miftruft. " Probably (he fhould fay to him- 
felf) from my early habits of fervility, I am 
too much inclined to kneel to my fuperiors ; 
and, in confequence of my late defpotic 
command, I am difpofed to tyrannize over 
my dependents; I am pofitive in my opi- 
nions, and too impatient of contradiction." 
You have read, I dare fay, that when So- 
crates was interrogated concerning his vaft 
knowledge, he anfwered that the chief of 
what he knew was that he knew nothing. Sir 
Ifaac Newton thought fo humbly of his 
fuperior abilities, that he conftantly afcribed 
his wonderful difcoveries folely to applica- 
tion, which he faid, was in every man's 
power. The great Locke entitled his ad- 
mirable tfreatife on Human Underftanding, 
merely an Effay. From thefe examples, we 
may rationally conclude, that arrogance 
makes no part of the character of a great 
man; 
