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Excerpt from The Beauties of History: Or, Pictures of Virtue and Vice, Drawn From Real Life; Designed for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth However persons differ about the manner of conducting education, the importance of it is universally allowed. It forms the brightest characters, calls forth those faculties which, in a state of nature, would lie dormant and concealed, and directs them to the best ends, the good of Society. Nature may be more liberal to some of the human species than to others, but her. gifts often prove hurtful to their possessors, if education does not teach the right use and exertion of them. The ancients trained up their youth to be useful to the State, and taught them to despise every advantage inconsistent with its welfare. The consequence of this was visible in the dignity and disinterestedness of their public and private transactions. This sentiment produced such illustrious characters and actions as we can scarcely give credit to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.