Youth? For Want of which, Men become seditious and turbulent, and live not peaceable in their Families and Tribes: But when they are inured from their Cradle to good Principles, and imbibe from their Infancy the Rules of Morality, they receive such Impressions of Virtue, as convinces them of that Advantage which mutual Concord brings to a Commonwealth. This, with many others, was one of the Policies of Lycurgus: And was of singular Force in the Confirmation and Establishment of his Laws:"—"Hence the Spartans having sucked in these Principles with their Milk, were possessed with a most reverend Esteem of all his Institutions: So that the Fundamentals of his Laws continued in Force for above five hundred Years, without any Violation.[1]"
Such then was the Force of concurrent Manners and Principles, all centering on one Point, impressed on the infant Mind,
- ↑ Comparison of Numa and Lycurgus.
