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He has had no education, or he would never have allowed the blind

god of riches to lead the dance within him. And being uneducated

he will have many slavish desires, some beggarly, some knavish,

breeding in his soul. If he is the trustee of an orphan, and has

the power to defraud, he will soon prove that he is not without

the will, and that his passions are only restrained by fear and

not by reason. Hence he leads a divided existence; in which the

better desires mostly prevail. But when he is contending for

prizes and other distinctions, he is afraid to incur a loss which

is to be repaid only by barren honour; in time of war he fights

with a small part of his resources, and usually keeps his money

and loses the victory.