raillery, and could fay in my turn, But what if fome inquifitive and well-difpofed young Nobleman AFTER all, we may let these two voyagers, fo well matched and fitted to each other, proceed on their journey. The question at prefent is of no fuch. rarities; but of raw, ignorant, ungovern.. able boys, on the one hand, and of shallow, fervile, and interefted governors, on the other. And if any good can, arise from fuch worthies as thefe,. faunteringwithin the circle of the grand Tour, the magic of travelling can call up more than I have ever yet feen. ¿ LORD SHAFTESBURY. It may be true, perhaps, that the advantages of travelling are not fo great, or fo general, as is fometimes pretended. Yet, on the other hand, that there are advantages, and confiderable ones too, can hardly be denied. And to come at length C 4 length more closely to the point (for what has hitherto paffed is but a fort of prelude to the main argument) let me have leave to ftate thofe advantages clearly and distinctly to you, and then to request your own proper fenfe (I mean as a man of the world, according to the advice you just now gave me, and not as a Philofopher) of this practice. MR. LOCKE. Is this fair dealing in your Lordship? I fuppofed that by starting this question you had meant only, as on other occafions, to engage an old man in a little conversation; whereas your purpofe, I now find, is to make a formal debate of it, LORD SHAFTESBURY. Nor a formal debate, but a free conference; for which we feem to have leifure enough; and the fubject is, be fides, of real importance. I may pre fume to answer for our friends here, that that they will not be displeased to affift at it. I AM aware, as you faid, that the practice may be fometimes inconvenient,, as it is commonly managed, on the fide of morals; and I would not be thought to have benefited fo little by yours, and the instructions of my other masters, as, not to lay the greatest stress on that confideration. BUT, after all, thefe inconveniences may be pretty well avoided, by the choice of an honeft and able governor. Such an one it will not be impoffible to find, if the perfons concerned be in earnest to look out for him: I do not say, in Cells, for a Pedant without manners; and still lefs, you will fay, in Camps, for a mannered man, without principles or letters; but, in the world at large, for fome learned and well-accomplished perfon, who, yet, may not difdain to be en gaged gaged in this nobleft office of conducting a young gentleman's education. UNDER fuch a Governor, as this, the danger, to which a young man's morals may be exposed by early travel, will be tolerably guarded againft; and to make amends for the hazard he runs in this refpect, I fee, on the other hand, so many reafons for breeding young men in this way, fo many benefits arifing from it at all times, and fuch peculiar inducements with regard to the prefent ftate of our own country, that, I think, we shall hardly be of two minds, when you have attended to them. MR. LOCKE. WE fhall fee that in due time. For the prefent, the serious air, you affume, fo different from your wonted manner, fecures my attention. LORD LORD SHAFTESBURY. I CANNOT tell what may be the opinion of others; but ignorance and barbarity feem to me to be the parents of the moft and the worft vices. Conceit, pride, bigotry, infolence, ferocity, cruelty, are the native product of the human mind, kept uncultivated. Self love, which makes fo predominant a part in the conftitution of man, that fome fufferers by its exceffes have miftaken it for the fole spring of all his actions, naturally engen. ders thefe vices, when no care is taken to control its operations by another. principle. A On this account, wife men have had recourfe to various expedients; fuch as the provifion of Laws; the culture of Arts and Letters; and, in general, all that difcipline which comes under the notion of early tutorage and education. But none of these has been found fo ef fectual |