NOTES:
1Here I am, a barbarian, because men understand me not.
MORAL EFFECTS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
Decipimur specie recti.—HORACE.
The question before me is, "Whether the Restoration of the arts and sciences has had the effect of purifying or corrupting morals." Which side am I to take? That, gentlemen, which becomes an honest man, who is sensible of his own ignorance, and thinks himself none the worse for it.