Note 945 — Chapter XVII · The Moral Scope.

Compare with this the passage quoted by Arnold: “Public schools are the very seats and nurseries of vice. It may be unavoidable, or it may not, but the fact is indisputable. None can pass through a large school without being pretty intimately acquainted with vice, and few, alas! very few, without tasting too largely of that poisoned bowl.”—Fitch, l. c., p. 77.