been bred, rather then to submit to better which might make
more for their happinesse and advantage Hence it is (as we
have once observed before, but cannot now omit it) that
those poor slaves under the Turk, Persian, Ta tar, Muscovit,
Russian, French, and Spaniard, with other Ea[unr]ern, Northern,
and Western Lords, are so inamor'd of their chains,
that they admire their own condition, being bred up in
it, above all others, and like the Indians, adore the Devil that
torments them, because their education hath made them ignorant
of a better Deity to protect them.
Seeing therefore, Education hath such a force in molding
mens minds after every form in Government or profession,
without doubt that Rule is of excellent use, which in all
times hath been observed by the Rulers of States and Kingdoms,
Aliter educanda est juventus in regno; aliter in optimatum
imperio; aliter in poluli; The education of youth
is to be ordered one way in a Kingdom, another way in the
government of a few great ones; and after a different manner
from all in the government of the people; it being varied and
regulated according to the nature of every form. Upon this
ground it was, that in Plutarch and Isocrates, we find so
many good testimonies of the great care that was had among
all the Free Estates of Greece in this particular; who
tied up their Pedagogues and Teachers to certain Rules and
selected certain Authors to be read onely, as Classicall for
the Institution of their youth. And that it was so in the daies
of Julius Cœsar, even in that barbarous Countrey of Gallia,
appears by Cœsars own Commentaries, who tells how that it
was the main office of those famous men among them, called
the Druides, to breed up their youth not onely in Religion,
but also to instruct them in the nature of Commonweal, and
mold them with Principles answerable to the Government.
How comes it to passe, that the Jesuits have so readily furnished
themselves with Instruments and Agents for the carrying
on of their designs to the embroylment of Christendom,
but that they have been permitted to erect Colledges
and Seminaries in every Corner, where their Novices are suckled