We encourage them to have these _honours_ in their eye, and to expect the reward of their studies from them. If the youth is intended for a _trade_, we bid him look at the rich men in the _same trade_, and consider how many now are carried in their _stately coaches_, who began in the same low degree as he now does. We awaken his ambition, and endeavour to give his mind a _right turn_, by often telling him how rich such and such a tradesman died. If he is to be a lawyer, then we set great _counsellors_, _lords_, _judges_, and _chancellors_, before his eyes. We tell him what great fees, and great _applause_ attend fine pleading. We exhort him to take fire at these things to raise a spirit of emulation in himself, and to be content with nothing less than the highest honours of the _long robe_. 6. That this is the nature of our _best education_, is too plain to need any proof; and I believe there are few parents, but would be glad to see these instructions daily given to their children. And after all this, we complain of the effects of pride; we wonder to see _grown men_ acted and governed by _ambition_, _envy_, _scorn_, and a desire of glory; not considering that they were all the time of their youth called upon to form all their action and industry upon the same principles. You teach a child to _scorn_ to be outdone, to thirst for _distinction_ and _applause_; and is it any wonder that he continues to act all his life in the same manner? *Now if a youth is ever to be so far a Christian, as to govern his heart by the _doctrines_ of humility, I would fain know at _what time_ he is to begin it; or, if he is _ever_ to begin it at all, why we train him up in tempers quite contrary to it? How _dry_ and _poor_ must the doctrine of humility sound to a youth, that has been spurred up to all his industry by _ambition_, _envy_, _emulation_, and a desire of _glory_ and _distinction_? And if he is not to act by these _principles_ when he is a _man_, why do we call him to act by them in his _youth_? _Envy_ is acknowledged by all people to be the most _ungenerous_, _base_ and _wicked_ passion, that can enter into the heart of man. And is this the temper to be instilled, nourished and established in the minds of young people? 7. I know it is said, that it is not _envy_, but _emulation_, that is intended to be awakened in the minds of young men. *But this is vainly said. For when children are taught to bear no _rival_, and to _scorn_ to be outdone by any of their age, they are plainly and directly taught to be _envious_. For it is impossible for any one to have this _scorn_ to be outdone, this contention with _rivals_, without burning with _envy_ against all those that seem to excel him, or get any distinction from him. So that what children are taught, is _rank envy_, and only covered with a name of a less odious sound.