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46 TilE f1PRI.sC-rnn: OF I,IFE.
writer of plays, gave this advice in TN:pect to.:
the education of a nephew: "Above all thing$,
never let him touch n novol or romnIlCC."
~roore had goou scn::.e and right feeling cnough
to kcep his voluptuous lincs frOill his own
daughters, tlwugh 1I0t enough to pre\'cnt hid
:;ending them auroau into the world. It is
aHirmcd too of a celebrated tragcdiac, tbat lie
never allowed his children to see the inside of
a theatre. There is meaning in such opiniOll~,
coming from such mCll.
Such nre the circumst..1.nc('~, my Joullg
friends, in whi('l1 you nre placed l and it is idle
to complll.in of them. The pre:;cnt st.ate would
be no probation to you, if JOU were already so
confirmed in good prin('iplc8, nnd so free from
temptations, as to ha\'8 nothing to fear either
from yournclves or the pORition you occupy.
'rImt i.'1 the highest virtue that oonsisl.."lin Ovcr.
coming the b)andi~hmcnts of vioo. No crowll
i:; so bright a.;; that which the victor 'will wear.
Iusteau then of unav'ailing ~grCL., at triili,
arise whence they will, and come as they may,
be it )"our determiuation b.v tbe belp of God to
surmount them all.