Hence they may be made capable of intrigue, hypocrisy, and deceit." "Prohibitions, again, they believe, except they be well founded, may confound the notions of children on the subject of morality; for if they are forbidden to do what they see worthy and enlightened persons do, they may never know where to fix the boundaries between vice and virtue." "Prohibitions, again, they consider, if made without an allowance of exceptions, as having a tendency to break the spirit of youth.

Break a horse in the usual way, and teach him to stop with the check of the reins, and you break him, and preserve his courage.

But put him in a mill to break him, and you break his life and animation.

Prohibitions therefore may hinder elevated feeling, and may lead to poverty and sordidness of spirit." "Prohibitions, again, they believe, if youth once depart from the right way, render them more vicious characters than common.

This arises from the abruptness or suddenness of transition.