onely with such doctrine as may inable and dispose them
for the ruining of States and Kingdoms? so that whether
it be to a good purpose or a bad, you see all the efficacie lies
in the education.
If we reflect upon the two grand Turns of State in Rome;
the first from a Monarchy to o Free-State, and then from a
Free state to a Monarchy again, they minister matter of notable
observation in this particular. In the first we find, how
difficult it was for the Romans to preserve their Freedome
when they had gotten it, because most of the youth having
been educated in Monarchicall principles, and under such
Tutors, were ever inclining that way upon the least opportunity;
so that the sons even of Brutus himself (who was the
Founder of their Liberty) quitted that naturall Affection
which they owed unto their Father and their Country, and
being swayed by the Monarchick principles of a corrupt Education,
drew in a great part of the Roman youth (like Themselves)
to joyn with them in a Designe for the bringing back
of the Tarquins to the Kingdom. It is very observable also,
what ado that Commonweal had to settle so long as any or
the old stock of Education were living, becaus those corrupt
points of Discipline and Government wherewith they were
seasoned when young, could not be worn out with Age; but
hurried many of them along with the storm of every Insurrection
and Invasion of the publick Enemy.
On the other side, in the Turn from a Free-State to a Monarchy
again, we see with what difficulty Cesar met, in setling
his own Domination over a People that had been educated
in a Free-state and in principles of Freedome; insomuch
that in the end it cost him his life, being stabd for his usurpation
by a Combination of some of the Senators, and the fact
applauded not onely by the People, but by Cicero and all the
Roman writers, and others that had been bred up under the
form of Freedom. And afterwards, when Augustus took
upon him the Inheritance and title of his Uncle Cœsar, he did
it lento pede very slowly and warily, for feare of conjuring up
the same spirit in the People, that had flown into revenge