Let it not be supposed that I would infer this always to be the fact.

I have put the extreme case, to point out what must ensue, according to the feelings of our nature, if care is not taken to prevent its occurrence.

There is a cruelty, a more than cruelty, in parents bringing up their children with ideas which seldom can be realised, and rendering their future lives a pilgrimage of misery and discontent, if not of depravity.
But the major part of our aristocracy are neither deficient in talent nor in worth.

They set a bright example to the nobles of other countries, and very frequently even to the less demoralised society of our own.

Trammelled by the deeds of their forefathers, they employ every means in their power to remedy the evil; and a large proportion of their younger branches find useful and honourable employment in the army, the navy, or the church.