'Suspicion has been always considered, when it exceeds the common measure, as a token of depravity and corruption; and a Greek writer has laid it down as a standing maxim, that _he who believes not the oath of another, knows himself to be perjured_.--Suspicion is, indeed, a temper so uneasy and restless, that it is very justly appointed the concomitant of guilt. Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness. He that is already corrupt, is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious, will quickly be corrupt[30].' This cannot always be true; but, if it were, the Rambler is by far the greatest miscreant who ever infested society. Speaking of Scotland, he says, 'I know not whether I found man or woman whom I interrogated concerning payments of money, that could surmount the illiberal desire of _deceiving me_, by representing every thing as dearer than it is.--The Scot must be a sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth[31].' Apply the Doctor's maxims to his own conduct, and then judge of his honesty. He adds a little after: 'The civility and respect which we found at every place, it is _ungrateful_ to omit, and tedious to repeat[32].' He should not have spoke of ingratitude. The picture grows quite shocking. 'How they lived without kail, it is not easy to guess. They cultivate hardly any other plant for common tables; and, when they had not kail, _they probably had_ NOTHING[33].' As the word _kail_ is not to be found in his Dictionary, an English reader will be at a loss to find out what he means. His conjecture is ridiculous; and here a _new_ contradiction must be swallowed by the Doctor's believers; for, if OATS be 'a grain, which, in England, is generally given to horses, but, in Scotland, _supports_ the people[34],' in that case, it is easy to guess how they lived without _kail_. Any thing else had surely been better than to fill up his heavy folios with such peevish nonsense.