It changes with the temper of every succeeding individual, and is subject to all the varieties of each.

It is government through the medium of passions and accidents.

It appears under all the various characters of childhood, decrepitude, dotage, a thing at nurse, in leading-strings, or in crutches.

It reverses the wholesome order of nature.

It occasionally puts children over men, and the conceits of nonage over wisdom and experience.