Ofearly AffiiEfioHs 195 generate into levity and fin: and we are very ready to di.fpleafe our n1aker, when we - are too intent on pleafing our friends. This loofe frame ~nd ,diilipation of mind;:~~lich · fociety cloth ·occafion, ·n1ade a goocrtman complain, Ex hominum confortio fimper ve– _nio mhzus homo: that he always can1e out of company lefs a man. Another prejudi.ce we receive by fociet,r, is, That it 'fills our minds with noxious in1a– ges, and fo~tifi.es · our corrupt notions and o– pinions of things. Our hearts are natutally too much addicted .to the things of the \vorld; ·we mind then1 toomi1ch, a-nd put too .high a value upon then1: and the difcourfes we-hear redouhle the ten1ptation, by bring– ing then1 continually into our thoughts; and (etting then1 off to the greatefl: advantage,. When we are alone in a fober te1nper, and take time to refleCt and confider of things, we are fon1etimes perfuaded of the vanity ~nd worthleffnefs of all thofe glittering trifles whereunto the generality ofnumkind are fo fadly bewitched: but when we come .abroad, and liften to the con1mon talk, and hear people fpeak of greatnefs, and riches, and honour, with concern and admiration, we quickly forge~ · our n1ore fober and deli– berate thoughts, and fuffer ourfelves to be R _3 earried
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