Endowments are not suffered to lie idle and useless to the Publick, and many vicious Men over-reached, as it were, and engaged contrary to their natural Inclinations in a glorious and laudable Course of Action. For we may further observe, that Men of the greatest Abilities are most fired with Ambition: And
on the contrary, mean and narrow Minds are the least actuated by it: whether it be that
a Man's Sense of his own
Incapacities makes
him
despair of coming at Fame, or that