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VGW(HU.769.025
30 Mar 1769:12 (932)
Language is one of the principal supports of society . . .
[1 column essay including the following:]
By education most have been misled,
So they believe because they were so bred:
The priest continued what the nurse began,
And thus the child imposes on the man.
. . . To talk of a man's being born a gentleman is an
inconsistent as to say he was born a fiddle, and with a
fiddle in his arms. Nature makes no distinction among her
children: All are born alike, helpless, naked, poor,
ignorant, and weak . . .
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