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For If You Suffer Your People To Be Ill-educated, And Their Manners To Be Corrupted From Their Infancy, And Then Punish Them For Those Crimes To Which Their First Education Disposed Them, What Else Is To Be Concluded From This, But That You First Make Thieves And Then Punish Them.

Most People Know Nothing About Learning; Many Despise It. Dummies Reject As Too Hard Whatever Is Not Dumb.

The Utopians Feel That Slaughtering Our Fellow Creatures Gradually Destroys The Sense Of Compassion, Which Is The Finest Sentiment Of Which Our Human Nature Is Capable.

The Education Of Youth Belongs To The Priests, Yet They Do Not Take So Much Care Of Instructing Them In Letters, As In Forming Their Minds And Manners Aright; They Use All Possible Methods To Infuse, Very Early, Into The Tender And Flexible Minds Of Children, Such Opinions As Are Both Good In Themselves And Will Be Useful To Their Country, For When Deep Impressions Of These Things Are Made At That Age, They Follow Men Through The Whole Course Of Their Lives, And Conduce Much To Preserve The Peace Of The Government, Which Suffers By Nothing More Than By Vices That Rise Out Of Ill Opinions.

If Honor Were Profitable, Everybody Would Be Honorable.