A new edition of Sir W. Petty's
Essays in Political Arithmetic
had just appeared.
| [No. 201] | Saturday, October 20, 1711 | Addison |
Religentem esse oportet, Religiosum nefas.
Incerti Autoris apud Aul. Gell.
It is of the last Importance to season the Passions of a Child with Devotion, which seldom dies in a Mind that has received an early Tincture of it. Though it may seem extinguished for a while by the Cares of the World, the Heats of Youth, or the Allurements of Vice, it generally breaks out and discovers it self again as soon as Discretion, Consideration, Age, or Misfortunes have brought the Man to himself. The Fire may be covered and overlaid, but cannot be entirely quenched and smothered.