young gentlemen educated at Weftminfter, 
Eton or the Charter Houfe; and hence it 
is furely incumbent on every pupil of 
thefe fchools, carefully to examine his ac- 
quired propenfities, and to correct the evil 
before habit fhall have rendered it an inde- 
lible feature is his character. Machiavel, 
the famous, the infamous, Italian politician, 
depended fo much on the effe6t of cuftorn^ 
that he advifes princes who wifh to remove 
their opponents by aflaffination, to employ 
none but fellows whofe hands are already 
ftained with blood. He reafoned from a 
juft knowledge of mankind. In fuffering 
children to torture flies, we fow the feeds of 
cruelty, which, like the parafiticai Ivy, will 
grow up with the faplen and cling to every 
branch. 
You will in the courfe of your ftudies at 
the univeriity neceflarily become acquainted 
with Locke's EJJay on Human Under/landing. 
He was of opinion that we are born with- 
out ideas, and confequently that all ideas 
arc impreflions on the brain from external 
objects, received and communicated by our 
fenfes* If this be true, we are entirely the 
creatures of education, and the difference of 
character between, one boy and another, 
edu- 
