There is no intimation of anything unusual, or discreditable to the school, in the event, and no apparent suspicion that it will be regarded as a serious imputation on Lord Byron's character.
Modern physiological developments would lead any person versed in the study of the reciprocal influence of physical and moral laws to anticipate the most serious danger to such an organisation as Lord Byron's, from a precocious development of the passions.

Alcoholic and narcotic stimulants, in the case of such a person, would be regarded as little less than suicidal, and an early course of combined drinking and licentiousness as tending directly to establish those unsound conditions which lead towards moral insanity.

Yet not only Lord Byron's testimony, but every probability from the licence of society, goes to show that this was exactly what did take place.
Neither restrained by education, nor warned by any correct physiological knowledge, nor held in check by any public sentiment, he drifted directly upon the fatal rock.
Here we give Mr.Moore full credit for all his abatements in regard to Lord Byron's excesses in his early days.

Moore makes the point very strongly that he was not, de facto, even so bad as many of his associates; and we agree with him.

Byron's physical organisation was originally as fine and sensitive as that of the most delicate woman.