Without a solid sterling basis of
individual goodness, all the grace, elegance, and art in the world
would fail to save or to elevate a people.
NOTES
(1) Locke thought it of greater importance that an educator of youth
should be well-bred and well-tempered, than that he should be
either a thorough classicist or man of science. Writing to Lord
Peterborough on his son's education, Locke said: "Your Lordship
would have your son's tutor a thorough scholar, and I think it not
much matter whether he be any scholar or no: if he but understand
Latin well, and have a general scheme of the sciences, I think
that enough. But I would have him WELL-BRED and WELL-TEMPERED."
(2) Mrs. Hutchinson's 'Memoir of the Life of Lieut.-Colonel
Hutchinson,' p. 32.
(3) 'Letters and Essays,' p. 59.
(4) 'Lettres d'un Voyageur.'
(5) Sir Henry Taylor's 'Statesman,' p. 59.
(6) Introduction to the 'Principal Speeches and Addresses of His Royal
Highness the Prince Consort,' 1862.
(7) "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beween my outcast state,
And troubled deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate;
WISHING ME LIKE TO ONE MORE RICH IN HOPE,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy, contented least;
Yet in these thoughts, MYSELF ALMOST DESPISING,
Haply I think on thee," &c.
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