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if not subservience, to his vices, must be the measures of your conduct. When it comes to that, the unnatural state a man lives in, when his Patron pleases, is ended; and his guilt and complaisance are objected to him, though the man who rejects him for his vices was not only his partner but seducer. Thus the Client (like a young Woman who has given up the innocence which made her charming) has not only lost his time, but also the virtue which could render him capable of resenting the injury which is done him. [[note]] No: 215. [[/note]] I consider an human Soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shews none of its inherent beauties, untill the shill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which without such helps are never able to make their appearance. Aristotle tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble, and that the art of the Statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure in in the Stone, the Sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of Marble, education is to an human Soul.
